TABLE OF CONTENT
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,Part One An Introduction to the Bible and the Biblical World
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Chapter 1 The Bible: An Overview
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Chapter 2 How the Bible Was Created: Transmission, Canonization, and Translation
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Chapter 3 The Ancient Near East: The Environment That Produced the Bible
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Part Two The Torah (Divine Instruction)
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Chapter 4 The Five Books of Torah (the Pentateuch): Themes and Theories
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Chapter 5 In the Beginning: The Book of Genesis
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Chapter 6 Freedom and Responsibility: The Book of Exodus
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Chapter 7 Law, Holiness, and Rebellion: The Books of Leviticus and Numbers
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Chapter 8 A New Vision of Moses’ Teaching: The Book of Deuteronomy
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Part Three The Prophets I
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Chapter 9 The Story of Ancient Israel: How the Promised Land Was Gained and Lost
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Chapter 10 Faith and War: The Book of Joshua
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Chapter 11 Yahweh’s Warriors: The Book of Judges
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Chapter 12 The Rise of David and the Birth of a Kingdom: The Books of 1 and 2 Samuel
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Chapter 13 From the Glory of Solomon to Exile in Babylon: The Books of 1 and 2 Kings
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Part Four The Prophets II
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Chapter 14 Israel’s Spokespersons for God
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Chapter 15 Prophets to the Northern Kingdom: The Oracles of Amos and Hosea
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Chapter 16 Prophets of the Assyrian Threat: The Oracles of Isaiah, Micah, Zephaniah, an
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Chapter 17 Prophets of the Babylonian Crisis: The Oracles of Jeremiah, Habakkuk, and
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Obadiah
Chapter 18 Prophets in Exile: The Oracles of Ezekiel and Second Isaiah
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,Chapter 19 After the Exile— cm cm cm cm
Israel’s Last Prophets: The Oracles of Haggai, Zechariah, Third Isaiah, Joel, Malachi, and
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Part Five The Writings
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Chapter 20 After the Exile: Israel’s Changing Life with God
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Chapter 21 The Postexilic Readjustment: The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah
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Chapter 22 Worshiping at the Second Temple: Hebrew Poetry and the Book of Psalms
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Chapter 23 Israel’s Wisdom Writers: The Books of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes
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Chapter 24 Festival Scrolls: The Books of Ruth, Song of Songs, Lamentations, and Esthe
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Chapter 25 Reinterpreting Israel’s History: The Books of 1 and 2 Chronicles
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Chapter 26 Keeping God’s Law in a Hostile World: Revolt of the Maccabees and the Boo
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k of Daniel
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Chapter 27 The Second Canon: Books of the ApocryphaPart Six The New Testament
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Chapter 28 The World in Which Christianity Originated: Roman Power, Greek Culture, an
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d the Cult of Deified Rulers
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Chapter 29 First- cm cm
Century Judaism: Diversity, Messianic Expectations, and the Birth of Christianity
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Chapter 30 Telling Jesus’ Story: The Gospel of Mark
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Chapter 31 The Synoptic Problem: The Gospel of Matthew and Its Relationship to the Go
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spels of Mark and Luke
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Chapter 32 Jesus as a Savior for “All Nations”: The Gospel of Luke
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Chapter 33 Another Way of Telling Jesus’ Story: The Gospel of John
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Chapter 34 An Account of Early Christianity: The Book of Acts
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Chapter 35 Paul and the Gentile Mission: Letters to Churches at Thessalonica, Corinth, G
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alatia, Rome, Philippi, and Colossae
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Chapter 36 Continuing the Pauline Tradition: Second Thessalonians, Colossians, Ephesia
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ns, and the Pastoral Epistles
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, Chapter 37 General Letters on Faith and Behavior: Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles
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Chapter 38 Continuing the Apocalyptic Hope: The Book of Revelation
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Chapter 39 Our Biblical Legacy: Evolving Concepts of God
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