TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,Bernhard W
TI  - Understanding the Old Testament
SN  - 9780130923806
AV  - BS1197.A545.U534 2006 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
PB  - Pearson Prentice Hall
KW  - Bible
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - History of Biblical events
KW  - Jews
KW  - History
KW  - To 70 A.D
N1  - 2; 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; 2
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