The Oxford History of the Biblical World 0195087070, 0195139372

In the beginning : the earliest history / Michael D. Coogan -- Before Israel : Syria-Palestine in the Bronze Age / Wayne

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The Oxford History of the Biblical World
 0195087070, 0195139372

Table of contents :
In the beginning : the earliest history / Michael D. Coogan --
Before Israel : Syria-Palestine in the Bronze Age / Wayne T. Pitard --
Bitter lives : Israel in and out of Egypt / Carol A. Redmount --
Forging an identity : the emergence of ancient Israel / Lawrence E. Stager --
"There was no king in Israel" : the era of the judges / Jo Ann Hackett --
Kinship and kingship : the early monarchy / Carol Meyers --
A land divided : Judah and Israel from the death of Solomon to the fall of Samaria / Edward F. Campbell Jr. --
Into exile : from the Assyrian conquest of Israel to the fall of Babylon / Mordechai Cogan --
Israel among the nations : the Persian period / Mary Joan Winn Leith --
Between Alexandria and Antioch : Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic period / Leonard J. Greenspoon --
Visions of kingdoms : from Pompey to the first Jewish revolt / Amy-Jill Levine --
Churches in context : the Jesus movement in the Roman world / Daniel N. Schowalter --
Transitions and trajectories : Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire / Barbara Geller.

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