The Old Testament: An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

<H2> Part I: The Hebrew Bible: An Overview </H2><H3> 1. The Hebrew Bible: A Composite Portrait of God and the Divine-Human Relationship </H3><H3> 2. The Process of Formation: The Transmission, Canonization, and Translation of the Hebrew Bible </H3><H2> Part II: The Biblical World: Culture and Religion </H2><H3> 3. The Ancient Near East: The Environment that Produced the Bible </H3><H3> 4. The Land and Archaeology of Ancient Israel: Historical Origins of the Covenant People </H3><H3> 5. The God of Israel: An Evolving Portrait </H3><H2> Part III: The Torah </H2><H3> 6. Who Wrote the "Books of Moses"? </H3><H3> 7. The Five Books of Torah (Divine Instruction) </H3><H3> 8. In the Beginning: The Book of Genesis </H3><H3> 9. Freedom and Responsibility: The Book of Exodus </H3><H3> 10. Regulating the Divine-Human Bond: The Books of Leviticus and Numbers </H3><H3> 11. A Mosaic Legacy: The Book of Deuteronomy </H3><H2> Part IV: The Prophets (Nevi'im) I </H2><H3> 12. Introduction to the Deuteronomistic History </H3><H3> 13. The Book of Joshua </H3><H3> 14. YHWH's Warriors: The Book of Judges </H3><H3> 15. The Birth of the Monarchy: The Books of 1 and 2 Samuel </H3><H3> 16. Parallel Stories of Israel and Judah: The Books of 1 and 2 Kings </H3><H2> Part V: The Prophets (Nevi'im) II </H2><H3> 17. The Nature and Function of Israelite Prophecy: Spokespersons for God </H3><H3> 18. Prophets to the Northern Kingdom: The Books of Amos and Hosea </H3><H3> 19. The Assyrian Crisis: Isaiah of Jerusalem, Micah, Zephaniah, and Nahum </H3><H3> 20. The Babylonian Threat: The Books of Jeremiah, Habakkuk, and Obadiah </H3><H3> 21. Prophets in Exile: The Book of Ezekiel and Second Isaiah </H3><H3> 22. After the Exile: Israel's Last Prophets--Haggai, Zechariah, Third Isaiah, Joel, Malachi, and Jonah </H3><H2> Part VI: The Writings (Kethuvim) </H2> <H3> 23. Introduction to the Writings: Reevaluating Israel's Life with God </H3><H3> 24. The Postexilic Readjustment: The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah </H3><H3> 25. Worshiping at the Second Temple: Hebrew Poetry and the Book of Psalms </H3><H3> 26. Israel's Wisdom Writers: The Books of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes </H3><H3> 27. Four Books of the Megillot (Festival Scrolls): Ruth, Lamentations, Songs of Songs, and Esther </H3><H3> 28. Reinterpreting Israel's History: The Books of 1 and 2 Chronicles </H3><H3> 29. Keeping Torah in a Hostile World: The Diaspora, the Maccabean Revolt, Apocalyptism, and the Visions of Daniel </H3><H2> Part VII: Additions to the Hebrew Bible: The Deuterocanonical and Extracanonical Books </H2><H3> 30. The "Second Canon": Books of the Apocrypha </H3><H3> 31. The Pseudepigrapha: Noncanonical Writings of the Late Biblical Period </H3><H3> 32. From the Maccabees to Jesus of Nazareth: Victory, Defeat, and teh Emergence of Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity </H3><H2> Glossary of Major Old Testament Characters, Terms, and Concepts </H2><H2> Selected Bibliography </H2><H2> Credits </H2><H2> Index </H2>