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.