The living world of the Old Testament / Bernhard W. Anderson. [print]

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PennsylvaniaRT I : 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 Forty years of wandering Detour via transjordan The invasion of Canaan Israel's conquest of Canaan: the Deuteronomistic view An alternative view of the conquest in Joshua and Judges I 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.

PennsylvaniaRT II : 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 One 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 II 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 Micah, a rural prophet Isaiah's later career The rediscovery of Mosaic Torah Differing views of the covenant Manasseh, the villain of Judah New outbursts of prophecy The deuteronomic reformation The book of Deuteronomy The renewal of the covenant Inadequacies of the reform Habakkuk's watchtower of faith Faith and nationalism The doom of the nation The suffering prophet The book of Jeremiah In the Reign of Jehoiakim Jeremiah's confessions In the reign of Zedekiah Beyond the day of doom.

PennsylvaniaRT III : THE ColoradoVENANT ColoradoMMUNITY IS RENEWED By the waters of Babylon The Jewish dispersion Ezekiel the priest Lamentation, mourning, and woe The promise of a new beginning Life under captivity Preservation of the tradition The priestly point of view The dawn of a new age New world horizons The poems of second Isaiah A herald of good tiding The creator and redeemer A light to the nations The servant of Yahweh Victory through suffering The servant and the Messiah The continuing Isaiah tradition The book of Isaiah as a whole A kingdom of priests Cyrus' edict of liberation The work of the chronicler Zerubbabel, the branch Reconstruction and reform Ezra, the architect of Judaism Nehemiah's terms as governor The law and the prophets The praises of Israel The book of Psalms Israel at worship Israel's pilgrimage festivals Meditating on the Torah The beginning of wisdom The wisdom of the east Israel's wisdom literature An anthology of Proverbs The skepticism of Ecclesiastes The book of Job From despair to faith Later reflections on wisdom The unfulfilled drama Tensions within Judaism The Hellenistic era The apocalypse of Daniel The kingdom that is God's Beyond the Old Testament Israel's pilgrimage.