Understanding the Old Testament
By: Bernhard W. Anderson with Steven Bishop and Judith H. Newman.
Contributors: Bishop, Steven.; Newman, Judith H. 1961-
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 653
ISBN-13: 9780130923806
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- History of Biblical events; Jews -- History -- To 70 A.D
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 605-642) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The story of a people; title: The Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament; title: The story of the Bible; title: The creation of a people; title: The beginnings of Israel; title: The nature of the tradition; title: The oral tradition; title: The prologue to the Exodus; title: Population unrest in the Fertile Crescent; title: The God of Israel's ancestors; title: The descent into Egypt; title: The oppression in Egypt; title: Liberation from bondage; title: The role of Moses; title: The disclosure of God's name; title: The contest with Pharaoh; title: The victory at the sea; title: Covenant in the wilderness; title: Guidance in the wilderness; title: The covenant at Sinai; title: Covenant and law; title: The breaking of the covenant; title: The mosaic faith; title: The Promised land; title: A land flowing with milk and honey; title: Forty years of wandering; title: Detour via Transjordan; title: The invasion of Canaan; title: Israel's conquest of Canaan : the deuteronomistic view; title: An alternative view of the conquest in Joshua and Judges I; title: The nature of the Israelite occupation; title: ^The formation of the tribal confederacy; title: The formation of an all-Israelite epic; title: From tradition to literature; title: The scope of the old epic narrative; title: Overview of Israel's epic narrative; title: The primeval history; title: The ancestral history; title: The people's history; title: The struggle between faith and culture; title: Temptations of Canaanite culture; title: Leaders in crisis; title: The decline of the confederacy; title: The last judge of Israel; title: Israel becomes like the nations; title: The throne of David; title: A time of international favor; title: Israel's rustic king; title: David, architect of the Israelite state; title: Solomon in all his glory; title: New horizons of faith; title: Prophetic troublers of Israel; title: The background of prophecy; title: The divided kingdom; title: One prophet against four hundred; title: Elijah, the Tishbite; title: Elisha and the closing years of the Omri Dynasty; title: Fallen is the virgin Israel; title: The revolution of Jehu; title: The age of Jeroboam II; title: The herdsman from Tekoa; title: The prophecy of Hosea; title: The fall of Samaria; title: ^Judah's covenant with death; title: The reign of Uzziah; title: The book of Isaiah; title: Micah, a rural prophet; title: Isaiah's later career; title: The rediscovery of Mosaic Torah; title: Differing views of the Covenant; title: Manasseh, the villain of Judah; title: New outbursts of prophecy; title: The Deuteronomic reformation; title: The Book of Deuteronomy; title: The renewal of the Covenant; title: Inadequacies of the reform; title: Habakkuk's watchtower of faith; title: Faith and nationalism; title: The doom of the nation; title: The suffering prophet; title: The Book of Jeremiah; title: In the reign of Jehoiakim; title: Jeremiah's confessions; title: In the reign of Zedekiah; title: Beyond the day of doom; title: The Covenant community is renewed; title: By the waters of Babylon; title: The Jewish dispersion; title: Ezekial the priest; title: Lamentation, mourning, and woe; title: The promise of a new beginning; title: Life under captivity; title: Preservation of the tradition; title: The priestly point of view; title: The dawn of a new age; title: New world horizons; title: The poems of Second Isaiah; title: A herald of good tidings; title: The creator and redeemer; title: A light to the nations; title: The servant of YHWH; title: Victory through suffering; title: The servant and the Messiah; title: The continuing Isaiah tradition; title: The Book of Isaiah as a whole; title: A Kingdom of priests; title: Cyrus' edict of liberation; title: The work of the chroniclers; title: Zerubbabel, the branch; title: Reconstruction and reform; title: Ezra, the architect of Judaism; title: Nehemiah's terms as governor; title: The law and the prophets; title: The praises of Israel; title: The Book of Psalms; title: Israel at worship; title: Israel's pilgrimage festivals; title: The Book of Psalms as a whole; title: The beginning of wisdom; title: The wisdom of the east; title: Israel's wisdom literature; title: An anthology of proverbs; title: The wise and the foolish; title: The skepticism of Ecclesiastes; title: The Book of Job; title: From despair to faith; title: The unfinished story; title: Tensions within Judaism; title: The Hellenistic era; title: The evolution of widsom; title: The resistance movement; title: The apocalpse of Daniel; title: The kingdom that is God's; title: Beyond the Hebrew Bible; title: Israel's pilgrimage.