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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael David Coogan |
| ISBN: | 0195139372 9780195139372 0195087070 9780195087079 |
| OCLC Number: | 44650958 |
| Description: | xi, 487 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Michael D. Coogan. |
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<br>"The Oxford History of the Biblical World is first-class. It merits the highest praise for the best one-volume work on the Biblical World in the world. It covers the vast sweep of the biblical story with great economy in wordage, but misses nothing of importance."--David Noel Freedman, Department of History, University of California, San Diego<p><br>"The book is excellent from every point of view."--Philip J. King, Boston College<p><br> Read more...
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