The Cambridge Companion to the Bible (Hardcover)

Introduction Howard Clark Kee; 1. Why the Bible is important; 2. How to use this book; 3. The identity and destiny of God's people; Bibliographical essay; Part I. The Old Testament World Eric M. Myers and John W. Rogerson: 1. The world of the ancestors; 2. The world of Israel's historians; 3. The world of Israel's prophets; 4. The world of Israel's worship; 5. The world of Israel's sages and poets; 6. The world of apocalyptic; Bibliographical essay; Part II. Jewish Responses to Greco-Roman Culture, 332 BCE to 200 CE Anthony J. Saldarini: 1. Judaism encounters the Hellenistic world; 2. Antiochus IV and the Maccabean crisis in Palestine; 3. Roman invasion and Jewish response; 4. Herod; 5. Herod's heirs; 6. The world of Jesus; 7. Mid-first-century crises; 8. The Jewish world after the fall of Jerusalem; Bibliographical essay; Part III. The Formation of the Christian Community Howard Clark Kee: 1. Jesus and the new Covenant people; 2. Paul: the Jesus movement launched in the Roman world; 3. Christianity responds to formative Judaism; 4. Christianity responds to Roman culture; 5. Conceptual and organisational diversity in the church; 6. Christianity seeks to unify faith and practice; Bibliographical essay; Index.