The Old Testament World |
Contents
Preface | 8 |
Geography and Ecology of the Land of Israel John Rogerson | 14 |
The Land 16 The coastal plain 16 The Shephelah 18 The Highlands 19 The Jordan | 43 |
Blood Ties 45 Conflicting Loyalties 48 The Function of Genealogies 51 Social | 58 |
Nations sharing Israels territory 63 Nations on Israels borders 64 Empires 70 Canaanites | 70 |
and social organization in Canaan 75 Transjordan 77 Ammonites 78 Moabites 79 Edom | 83 |
Arameans 84 Empires 90 Egypt 90 Hittites and Hurrians 94 Assyria 97 Babylon 102 | 102 |
Persians and Medes 109 Greece | 113 |
Legal Texts John Rogerson | 233 |
Deuteronomy 245 Religious practice 247 Women 248 Regulations about war 248 | 248 |
Sacrifices 253 Sacrifice in Ancient Israel 255 Regular and special offerings 256 | 273 |
Prophetic speech 282 Isaiah 285 Second Isaiah 287 Third Isaiah 288 The Latter Pro | 292 |
Wisdom Literature Philip Davies | 293 |
Argument 296 Narrative 296 Manticism 296 Who were the Wise? 297 Wisdom | 307 |
The Meaning of Apocalyptic 310 Apocalyptic Subject Matter 311 Divination | 313 |
Apocalypses 315 Enoch 315 Daniel | 320 |
The Early Israelites 117 The Philistines 120 Saul 122 David and Solomon 123 | 123 |
Patriarchal Traditions 132 The Exodus | 132 |
From the Division of the Kingdom to the Babylonian Exile | 140 |
Internal and External Conflicts 144 Kings of Judah 149 Assyrian Aggression 149 | 149 |
Israel under the Persians and Ptolemies Philip Davies | 158 |
Exile 158 The Situation in Judah 160 The Return 161 Ezra and Nehemiah | 172 |
From the Maccabees to Herod the Great Philip Davies | 174 |
The Hellenistic Crisis c 175140 BCE 174 Development of the crisis 178 | 191 |
Sumerian and Akkadian Texts 198 The Problem of Sources 199 The Meaning | 216 |
Judaism 329 Four Jewish parties 329 Outward Characteristics of Early Judaism | 330 |
philosophy 342 Other Jews 342 Samaritans 343 Messianism | 343 |
A Variety of Oral Traditions 349 The book of Judges 349 The books of Samuel 350 | 350 |
Genesis 351 Exodus 354 Written Forms of the Old Testament 355 Political con | 357 |
The Pentateuch 360 Some possible outlines 361 The Adoption of the Law | 365 |
371 Text and Versions | 373 |
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