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Introduction |
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The story of a people |
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The Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament |
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The story of the Bible |
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The creation of a people |
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The beginnings of Israel |
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The nature of the tradition |
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The oral tradition |
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The prologue to the Exodus |
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Population unrest in the Fertile Crescent |
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The God of Israel's ancestors |
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The descent into Egypt |
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The oppression in Egypt |
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Liberation from bondage |
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The role of Moses |
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The disclosure of God's name |
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The contest with Pharaoh |
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The victory at the sea |
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Covenant in the wilderness |
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Guidance in the wilderness |
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The covenant at Sinai |
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Covenant and law |
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The breaking of the covenant |
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The mosaic faith |
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The Promised land |
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A land flowing with milk and honey |
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Forty years of wandering |
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Detour via Transjordan |
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The invasion of Canaan |
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Israel's conquest of Canaan : the deuteronomistic view |
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An alternative view of the conquest in Joshua and Judges I |
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The nature of the Israelite occupation |
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^The formation of the tribal confederacy |
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The formation of an all-Israelite epic |
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From tradition to literature |
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The scope of the old epic narrative |
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Overview of Israel's epic narrative |
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The primeval history |
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The ancestral history |
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The people's history |
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The struggle between faith and culture |
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Temptations of Canaanite culture |
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Leaders in crisis |
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The decline of the confederacy |
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The last judge of Israel |
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Israel becomes like the nations |
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The throne of David |
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A time of international favor |
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Israel's rustic king |
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David, architect of the Israelite state |
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Solomon in all his glory |
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New horizons of faith |
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Prophetic troublers of Israel |
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The background of prophecy |
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The divided kingdom |
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One prophet against four hundred |
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Elijah, the Tishbite |
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Elisha and the closing years of the Omri Dynasty |
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Fallen is the virgin Israel |
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The revolution of Jehu |
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The age of Jeroboam II |
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The herdsman from Tekoa |
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The prophecy of Hosea |
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The fall of Samaria |
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^Judah's covenant with death |
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The reign of Uzziah |
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The book of Isaiah |
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Micah, a rural prophet |
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Isaiah's later career |
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The rediscovery of Mosaic Torah |
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Differing views of the Covenant |
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Manasseh, the villain of Judah |
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New outbursts of prophecy |
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The Deuteronomic reformation |
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The Book of Deuteronomy |
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The renewal of the Covenant |
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Inadequacies of the reform |
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Habakkuk's watchtower of faith |
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Faith and nationalism |
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The doom of the nation |
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The suffering prophet |
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The Book of Jeremiah |
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In the reign of Jehoiakim |
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Jeremiah's confessions |
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In the reign of Zedekiah |
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Beyond the day of doom |
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The Covenant community is renewed |
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By the waters of Babylon |
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The Jewish dispersion |
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Ezekial the priest |
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Lamentation, mourning, and woe |
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The promise of a new beginning |
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Life under captivity |
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Preservation of the tradition |
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The priestly point of view |
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The dawn of a new age |
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New world horizons |
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The poems of Second Isaiah |
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A herald of good tidings |
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The creator and redeemer |
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A light to the nations |
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The servant of YHWH |
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Victory through suffering |
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The servant and the Messiah |
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The continuing Isaiah tradition |
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The Book of Isaiah as a whole |
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A Kingdom of priests |
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Cyrus' edict of liberation |
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The work of the chroniclers |
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Zerubbabel, the branch |
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Reconstruction and reform |
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Ezra, the architect of Judaism |
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Nehemiah's terms as governor |
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The law and the prophets |
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The praises of Israel |
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The Book of Psalms |
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Israel at worship |
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Israel's pilgrimage festivals |
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The Book of Psalms as a whole |
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The beginning of wisdom |
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The wisdom of the east |
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Israel's wisdom literature |
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An anthology of proverbs |
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The wise and the foolish |
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The skepticism of Ecclesiastes |
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The Book of Job |
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From despair to faith |
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The unfinished story |
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Tensions within Judaism |
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The Hellenistic era |
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The evolution of widsom |
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The resistance movement |
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The apocalpse of Daniel |
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The kingdom that is God's |
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Beyond the Hebrew Bible |
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Israel's pilgrimage. |
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