The Oxford history of the biblical world /edited by Michael D. Coogan.
Description
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.
xii, 643 p. :ill., maps ;25 cm.
Publication Details
Place Published
City
New York
Date Published
1998
Publication Subjects
Bible--History of contemporary events.
Bible--History of Biblical events.
Civilization, Ancient.