The Biblical World (Paperback, 2 ed)

Introduction  1. The Old Testament/Hebrew Bible  2. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha  3. The Dead Sea Scrolls  4. The New Testament  5. Early Christian Apocrypha  6. Law  7. Historiography  8. Prophecy  9. Wisdom  10. Apocalypticism  11. The Jewish/Hellenistic novel  12. The Gospels and Acts  13. Letters in the New Testament in the Greco-Roman world  14. Cuneiform myths and epics in the Ancient Near East  15. The Hebrew and Aramaic languages  16. The Greek language  17. Text and versions: the Old Testament  18. Text and versions: the New Testament  19. Hebrew inscriptions  20. The Cairo Genizah  21. Greek and Roman inscriptions: Jewish inscriptions  22. Christian inscriptions in a (post-)biblical world  23. Biblical archaeology  24. Palestine during the Bronze Age  25. Palestine during the Iron Age  26. Israel’s ancestors: the patriarchs and matriarchs  27. Israel at the time of the united monarchy: David and Solomon  28. Exile, migration, and diaspora after the fall of Jerusalem in the sixth century BCE  29. Israel under Persia and Greece  30. Judaea under Roman rule: 63 BCE?135 CE  31. Israel’s neighbours  32. Religion in Israel: pre-exile and in exile  33. Warfare  34. Priesthood and festivals  35. The Arts: representational (architecture, artefacts), performative (music, drama), literary (poetry, psalmody)  36: Family and everyday life  37. Judaism at the turn of the era  38. The first churches: social life  39. The first churches: religious practices  4. Creation and covenant  41. Salvation in Jewish thought  42. Salvation in Christian thought  43. Ethics  44. New Testament christology: interpretations of the identity and role of Jesus  45.  Interpretations of the identity and role of Paul  46. Death and afterlife  47. Purity and sacrifice  48. Jewish Bible translations  49. Jewish Bible interpretation  50. Christian Bible translation  51. Early Christian biblical interpretation  52. Modern biblical interpretation  53. Reader-response criticism and recent readers  54. The Bible in contemporary culture and society