TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coogan, Michael D
TI  - A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament:  The Hebrew Bible in Its Context
SN  - 9780190238599
U1  - B60 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Part one Introductory   1 What is theold testament .....3  Box 1.1 Chapter and verse .....4  The jewish canon .....4  Box 1.2 The dead sea scrolls .....6  The christian canons .....7  The study of the bible .....8  Box 1.3 The canons of the hebrew bible/ old testament .....9  A look back and ahead .....12  2 The promised land: Geography, history, and importance ......14  Geography .....14  History .....21  Box 2.1 Timeline .....23  Importance .....26  A look back and ahead ....27  Part two Cosmic origins   3 Creations genesis 1-3 ....31  The book of genesis .....31  Genesis 1 and the sabbath .....31  Box 3.1 Genesis and science ....33  Box 3.2 The sabbath in jewish and christian tradition ....34  Box 3.3 Myth and the bible .....37  The second account of creation (gen2.4b-3.24) .....38  Box 3.4 God and the lord (God) .....38  Box 3.5 The garden of eden.....39  Box 3.6 Adam and eve in jewish and christian tradition ....42  A look back and ahead ....44  4 The formation of the pentateuch and the primeval historal Genesis 4-11 ....46  The traditional view .....46  The development of modern interpretation .....47  A summary of the documentary hypothesis .....48  The formation of the p[entateuch .....90  Challenges to the documentary hypothesis .....50  Other strategies for interpreting the pentateuch .....51  Primeval history .....52  J (The yahwist source) .....52  Box 4.1 Cain and abel ....53  Box 4.2 Noah`s drunkenness ....54  Box 4.3 The sons of god .....54  Box 4.4 The tower of babel .....55  Box 4.5 The table of nations .....56  P (The priestly source) .....58  The flood ....59  Box 4.6 The documentary hypothesis at work .....59  A look back and ahead .....61  Part three national origins  5 The ancestors of israel  Genesis 12-50 ....65  The nature of the narratives ....65  Box 5.1 Abram and abraham, sarai and sarah .....66  Source critcism ....66  Form criticism .....68  Box 5.2 The binding of issac ....69  Box 5.3 Circumcision .....70  Ancient near eastern parallels ....72  Box 5.4 The ugaritic texts ....72  6 Escape from egypt Egypt Exodus 1-15 .....81  7 From egypt to sinal exodus  16-20 and 24 ......97  8 Law, ritual, and holiness exodus 20.22-23.33 and 25-40 and leviticus ......109  9 In the widerness Numbers .....133  10 The end of the journey to the promised land deuteronomy ......147  11 Joshua and the conquest of the land of canaan Joshua ....161  12 The emergence of israel in the land of canaan judges .......176  Part four kings and prophts   13 The establishment of the monarchy 1 Samuel 195  14 The reign of david 2 Samuel and i kings 1-2 .....209  15 The regin of solomon 1 kings 1-11 and psalm 89 .....221`  16 The divided kingdoms of israel and judah from the late tenth to the early eighth centuries bce 1 kings 12-2 kings 14 With an introduction to prophecy .....235  17 The northern kingdon of israel in the eighth century bce 2 kings 14-17. Amos and hosea .....253  18 The kingdom of judah in the eighth and early seventh centuries bce 2 kings 15-20,2 Chronicles 29-32,Isaiah 1-39, and Micah ......270  19 Judah in the seventh and early sixth centuries bce : The end of assyrian domination and the fall of jerusalem 2 kings 21-25,2 Chronicles 33-36, Zephaniah, nahum, Habakkuk and jeremiah .....290  Part five exile and return   20 After the fall: Judeans in judah and babylon lamentations, psalm 137, obadish and Ezekiel .....315  21 Return from exile ezra1-2 and isaish 34-35 and 40-55 ......331  Part six Reconstruction, consolidation, and challenge  22 The restoration: Judah in the late sixth and fifth centuries bce ezra 3-10, Nehemiah, haggai, zechariah, isaiah .....24-27  23 Retelling the story of david 1-2 Chronicles and psalmns ....367  24 The wisdom of the sages: Preservation and challenge proverbs, job ecclesiastes, and the song of solomon with an introduction to wisdom literature .....383  25 Heroes in foreign lands : Postexilic literature and disporic identity ruth, jonah, esther and danel .....406
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