Understanding the Old Testament /
Anderson, Bernhard W,
Understanding the Old Testament / [print] Bernhard W. Anderson. - Abridgedition. fifth edition. - Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Pearson Prentice Hall, (c)2006. - xviii, 653 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: the Old Testament as the story of a people -- The sense of tradition -- The story of the Bible -- The creation of a people -- The beginnings of Israel -- The nature of the tradition -- The oral tradition -- The prologue to the Exodus -- Population unrest in the fertile crescent -- The God of Israel's ancestors -- The descent into Egypt -- The oppression in Egypt -- Liberation from bondage -- The role of Moses -- The disclosure of God's name -- The contest with Pharaoh -- The victory at the sea -- Covenant in the wilderness -- Guidance in the wilderness -- The covenant at Sinai -- Covenant and law -- The breaking of the covenant -- The mosaic faith -- The Promised land -- A land flowing with milk and honey -- Years of wandering -- Detour via TtransJordan -- The invasion of Canaan -- Israel's conquest of Canaan : the deuteronomistic view -- An alternative view of the conquest in Joshua and Judges -- The nature of the Israelite occupation -- The formation of the tribal confederacy -- The formation of an all-Israelite epic -- From tradition to literature -- The scope of the old epic narrative -- Overview of Israel's epic narrative -- The primeval history -- The ancestral history -- The people's history -- The struggle between faith and culture -- Temptations of Canaanite culture -- Leaders in crisis -- The decline of the confederacy -- The last judge of Israel -- Israel becomes like the nations -- The throne of David -- A time of international favor -- Israel's rustic king -- David, architect of the Israelite state -- Solomon in all his glory -- New horizons of faith -- Prophetic troublers of Israel -- The background of prophecy -- A historian's view of the times -- The divided kingdom -- Prophet against four hundred -- Elijah, the Tishbite -- Elisha and the closing years of the Omri Dynasty -- Fallen is the virgin Israel -- The revolution of Jehu -- The age of Jeroboam -- The herdsman from Tekoa -- The prophecy of Hosea -- The fall of Samaria -- Judah's covenant with death -- The reign of Uzziah -- The book of Isaiah.
9780130923806
2005037524
Bible.--Old Testament--History of Biblical events.
Jews--History--To 70 A.D.
BS1197.A545.U534 2006
Understanding the Old Testament / [print] Bernhard W. Anderson. - Abridgedition. fifth edition. - Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Pearson Prentice Hall, (c)2006. - xviii, 653 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: the Old Testament as the story of a people -- The sense of tradition -- The story of the Bible -- The creation of a people -- The beginnings of Israel -- The nature of the tradition -- The oral tradition -- The prologue to the Exodus -- Population unrest in the fertile crescent -- The God of Israel's ancestors -- The descent into Egypt -- The oppression in Egypt -- Liberation from bondage -- The role of Moses -- The disclosure of God's name -- The contest with Pharaoh -- The victory at the sea -- Covenant in the wilderness -- Guidance in the wilderness -- The covenant at Sinai -- Covenant and law -- The breaking of the covenant -- The mosaic faith -- The Promised land -- A land flowing with milk and honey -- Years of wandering -- Detour via TtransJordan -- The invasion of Canaan -- Israel's conquest of Canaan : the deuteronomistic view -- An alternative view of the conquest in Joshua and Judges -- The nature of the Israelite occupation -- The formation of the tribal confederacy -- The formation of an all-Israelite epic -- From tradition to literature -- The scope of the old epic narrative -- Overview of Israel's epic narrative -- The primeval history -- The ancestral history -- The people's history -- The struggle between faith and culture -- Temptations of Canaanite culture -- Leaders in crisis -- The decline of the confederacy -- The last judge of Israel -- Israel becomes like the nations -- The throne of David -- A time of international favor -- Israel's rustic king -- David, architect of the Israelite state -- Solomon in all his glory -- New horizons of faith -- Prophetic troublers of Israel -- The background of prophecy -- A historian's view of the times -- The divided kingdom -- Prophet against four hundred -- Elijah, the Tishbite -- Elisha and the closing years of the Omri Dynasty -- Fallen is the virgin Israel -- The revolution of Jehu -- The age of Jeroboam -- The herdsman from Tekoa -- The prophecy of Hosea -- The fall of Samaria -- Judah's covenant with death -- The reign of Uzziah -- The book of Isaiah.
9780130923806
2005037524
Bible.--Old Testament--History of Biblical events.
Jews--History--To 70 A.D.
BS1197.A545.U534 2006