The Oxford history of the biblical world
By: edited by Michael D. Coogan.
Contributors: Coogan, Michael David.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
Subjects: Bible -- History of contemporary events; Bible -- History of Biblical events; Civilization, Ancient
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-455) and index.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning : the earliest history / Michael D. Coogan; title: Before Israel : Syria-Palestine in the Bronze Age / Wayne T. Pitard; title: Bitter lives : Israel in and out of Egypt / Carol A. Redmount; title: Forging an identity : the emergence of ancient Israel / Lawrence E. Stager; title: "There was no king in Israel" : the era of the judges / Jo Ann Hackett; title: Kinship and kingship : the early monarchy / Carol Meyers; title: A land divided : Judah and Israel from the death of Solomon to the fall of Samaria / Edward F. Campbell Jr.; title: Into exile : from the Assyrian conquest of Israel to the fall of Babylon / Mordechai Cogan; title: Israel among the nations : the Persian period / Mary Joan Winn Leith; title: Between Alexandria and Antioch : Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic period / Leonard J. Greenspoon; title: Visions of kingdoms : from Pompey to the first Jewish revolt / Amy-Jill Levine; title: Churches in context : the Jesus movement in the Roman world / Daniel N. Schowalter; title: Transitions and trajectories : Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire / Barbara Geller.