26 Glossary
27 Index
List of Illustrations
1 PrologueMAP 0.1 The ancient Near East.
2 c00FIGURE 0.1 Scholarly edition of the same text as in Figure 0.2, below. In co...FIGURE 0.2 One of our earliest manuscripts of the book of Isaiah, dated to t...
3 Chapter 1MAP 1.1 The land of Israel and its surroundings.FIGURE 1.1 Ancient visitors to Egypt from the East (Canaanites?).MAP 1.2 The major routes of the ancient Near East. Note how the major routes...MAP 1.3 The reach of three of the major empires that dominated Israel and/or...
4 Chapter 2FIGURE 2.1 Part of the hill country of central Israel. Notice the ancient te...FIGURE 2.2 Typical pillared house of the Israelites. The bottom floor had st...FIGURE 2.3 Tablet containing a letter from Abdi‐heba, the ruler of Jerusalem...FIGURE 2.4 The Merneptah stela, including a list of Egyptian conquests and d...MAP 2.1 Areas of the hill country occupied by the Israelites and Judeans, an...FIGURE 2.5 Animals feeding on trees, an early Israelite reflection of a yet ...
5 Chapter 3FIGURE 3.1 Artist’s reconstruction of Solomon’s Jerusalem. The Temple is on ...FIGURE 3.2 Scribe standing before the king of a small neighboring kingdom wi...FIGURE 3.3 Mesopotamian student exercise tablet where the teacher wrote a co...FIGURE 3.4 Letters inscribed into the surface of a stone, with an overlay in...FIGURE 3.5 The “Gezer Calendar.” This may be an early educational exercise. ...
6 Chapter 4FIGURE 4.1 Copy of the Egyptian Instruction of Amenemope, dated approximatel...FIGURE 4.2 The Hammurabi stela. The king shows respect before the enthroned ...FIGURE 4.3 Tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic containing the flood narrative.FIGURE 4.4 Titian’s painting of Adam and Eve taking the apple from a snake‐t...
7 Chapter 5MAP 5.1 The neighboring kingdoms of Israel and Judah.FIGURE 5.1 One of the ivory carvings found in Samaria, the site of Ahab’s fa...FIGURE 5.2 Detail from a wall‐sized panorama, in the palace of the Assyrian ...FIGURE 5.3 Panel from the Black Obelisk of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III...FIGURE 5.4 Ivory spoon found at Hazor, uniting images of a woman on one side...FIGURE 5.5 Pillar figurines of a sort common in archaeological remains of th...FIGURE 5.6 Drawing and inscription found at a desert trading post called Kun...
8 Chapter 6FIGURE 6.1 The Sennacherib prism.FIGURE 6.2 Judean seals from the time of Isaiah and Micah, showing strong Eg...
9 Chapter 7MAP 7.1 The Judean kingdom after the fall of the north.FIGURE 7.1 Seals and other images from the late seventh century. They well i...
10 Chapter 9FIGURE 9.1 Ashes and arrowheads left from the Babylonian attack on Jerusalem...MAP 9.1 The journey to Babylon.FIGURE 9.2 Reproduction of part of the magnificent temple of Ishtar located ...
11 Chapter 10FIGURE 10.1 Another analogy for the composition of non‐P materials is this c...FIGURE 10.2 Silver amulet, dating to the period around the fall of Jerusalem...
12 Chapter 11FIGURE 11.1 Relief from the Persian capital of Persepolis. It depicts the ma...FIGURE 11.2 The Cyrus cylinder.MAP 11.1 Judah as a province of the Persian empire.
13 Chapter 13FIGURE 13.1 Copy of the Hebrew book of Ben Sira found near the Dead Sea.MAP 13.1 The expanding kingdom of the Hasmoneans.FIGURE 13.2 Coin from the time of the Hasmoneans, combining the Greek practi...
Guide
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5 Maps
6 Main Discussions/Outlines of Biblical Books
7 Preface to the First Edition
10 Overview of the Historical Period
11 Timeline
14 Glossary
15 Index
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