| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 643 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-606) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bible -- History of Biblical events
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Bible -- History of contemporary events
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Bibel |
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Bible -- Histoire des événements contemporains. |
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Bible -- Histoire des événements. |
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Bible. |
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Civilization, Ancient
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Coogan, Michael David
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| ISBN |
0199762538 (electronic bk.) |
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9780199762538 (electronic bk.) |
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(cl ; alk. paper) |
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(cl ; alk. paper) |
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