| Description |
xviii, 431 pages : color maps ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. What is the Bible? -- Chapter 2. Why is the Bible so Hard to Understand? -- Chapter 3. The Book of Genesis -- Chapter 4. Who wrote the Pentateuch? -- Chapter 5. From Egypt to Mount Sinai: Exodus and Leviticus -- Chapter 6. From Mount Sinai to the Promised Land: Numbers and Deuteronomy -- Chapter 7. The Deuteronomistic History: Joshua and Judges -- Chapter 8. The Books of Samuel and Kings -- Chapter 9. Early Israelite Prophets: Amos and Isaiah -- Chapter 10. Other Pre-exilic Prophets: Hosea, Micah, Nahum, Zephaniah, Jeremiah and Habakkuk -- Chapter 11. The Historians of Exile and Return: Erza, Nehemiah, and Beyond -- Chapter 12. The Exilic and Post-exillic Prophets -- |
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Chapter 13. The Poets of Ancient Israel -- Chapter 14. Storytellers in Ancient Israel -- Chapter 15. The Wisdom Literature -- Chapter 16. Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and the Apocrypha -- Chapter 17. The World of Jesus and His Followers -- Chapter 18. The Synoptic Problem and the Gospel of Mark -- Chapter 19. The Gospels of Matthew and Luke -- Chapter 20. The Gospel of John and the Later Gospels -- Chapter 21. The Historical Jesus -- Chapter 22. The Life of the Apostle Paul -- Chapter 23. The Letters of Paul -- Chapter 24. The Acts of the Apostles -- Chapter 25. In the Wake of Paul: The Deutero-Pauline Letters -- Chapter 26. The General Epistles and the Book of Revelation -- Appendix. The Canon and Text of the Bible |
| Summary |
Accessible to students of all religious backgrounds, this survey text covers every book in the canon and explains the historical and literary problems posed by the biblical texts. Comprehensive yet concise, groundbreaking in scholarship, and rich in pedagogical tools, this is an ideal textbook for one-semester courses on the Bible. Features “Questions for review and reflection”, full colour illustrations (including maps, time lines, charts and photos), “What to expect”, and “At a glance” sections, as well as sections presenting certain issues in more depth |
| Notes |
Previous edition: 2014 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| SUBJECT |
Bible -- Introductions
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| Genre/Form |
Introductions.
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Einführung
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| LC no. |
2016050476 |
| ISBN |
9780190621308 (pbk.) |
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