The Oxford History of the Biblical World

by Coogan, Michael D.

• ISBN13: 9780195139372
• ISBN10: 0195139372
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is a text-only paperback edition of The Oxford History of the Biblical World. a comprehensive survey of the world from which the Bible emerged. Chronologically ordered, it is an authoritative synthesis written by leading scholars and incorporating the latest archeological discoveries andcurrent methodologies. Chapters present a readable and integrated study of the history, art, architecture, languages, literature, and religion of biblical Israel and early Judaism and Christianity in their larger cultural context. For the paperback edition the maps and tables will remain intact.However, Coogan selects an eight-page black and white insert from the original art program. The art insert compiles the most visually compelling and historical important items that are illustrative of the text.

Author Biography

Michael D. Coogan, editor of the New Oxford Annotated Bible, 3rd ed. and co-editor of the Oxford Companion to the Bible, is currently director of publications for the Harvard Semitic Museum and Professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	vii
Preface	ix
Prologue In the Beginning: The Earliest History	3	(22)
Michael D. Coogan
Before Israel: Syria-Palestine in the Bronze Age	25	(33)
Wayne T. Pitard
Bitter Lives: Israel in and out of Egypt	58	(32)
Carol A. Redmount
Forging an Identity: The Emergence of Ancient Israel	90	(42)
Lawrence E. Stager
``There Was No King in Israel'': The Era of the Judges	132	(33)
Jo Ann Hackett
Kinship and Kingship: The Early Monarchy	165	(41)
Carol Meyers
A Land Divided: Judah and Israel from the Death of Solomon to the Fall of Samaria	206	(36)
Edward F. Campbell Jr.
Into Exile: From the Assyrian Conquest of Israel to the Fall of Babylon	242	(34)
Mordechai Cogan
Israel among the Nations: The Persian Period	276	(41)
Mary Joan Winn Leith
Between Alexandria and Antioch: Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic Period	317	(35)
Leonard J. Greenspoon
Visions of Kingdoms: From Pompey to the First Jewish Revolt	352	(36)
Amy-Jill Levine
Churches in Context: The Jesus Movement in the Roman World	388	(32)
Daniel N. Schowalter
Epilogue Transitions and Trajectories: Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire	420	(27)
Barbara Geller
Chronology	447	(6)
General Bibliography	453	(3)
Contributors	456	(3)
Index	459