| Description |
xii, 643 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-606) and index. |
| Contents |
In the beginning : the earliest history / Michael D. Coogan -- Before Israel : Syria-Palestine in the Bronze Age / Wayne T. Pitard -- Bitter lives : Israel in and out of Egypt / Carol A. Redmount -- Forging an identity : the emergence of ancient Israel / Lawrence E. Stager -- "There was no king in Israel" : the era of the judges / Jo Ann Hackett -- Kinship and kingship : the early monarchy / Carol Meyers -- A land divided : Judah and Israel from the death of Solomon to the fall of Samaria / Edward F. Campbell Jr. -- Into exile : from the Assyrian conquest of Israel to the fall of Babylon / Mordechai Cogan --Israel among the nations : the Persian period / Mary Joan Winn Leith -- Between Alexandria and Antioch : Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic period / Leonard J. Greenspoon -- Visions of kingdoms : from Pompey to the first Jewish revolt / Amy-Jill Levine -- Churches in context : the Jesus movement in the Roman world / Daniel N. Schowalter -- Transitions and trajectories : Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire / Barbara Geller. |
| Summary |
Contains a series of essays in which a variety of scholars offer a chronologically arranged examination of the history, art, architecture, languages, literatures, and religion of biblical Israel and early Judaism and Christianity. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Dr. James H. Poivan, Professor of History, Emeritus. |
| Subject |
Bible -- History of contemporary events.
|
|
Bible. |
|
History of contemporary events. |
|
Civilization, Ancient.
|
|
Civilization, Ancient. |
|
Bible -- History of Biblical events.
|
|
History of Biblical events. |
|
Civilisation - Antiquité.
|
| Added Author |
Coogan, Michael David.
|
| Other Form: |
Online version: Oxford history of the biblical world. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)607138052 |
|
Online version: Oxford history of the biblical world. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)607728036 |
| ISBN |
0195087070 cl alkaline paper |
|
9780195087079 cl alkaline paper |
|
