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    Chapter 1 - The Bible: An Overview

    Chapter 2 - The Process of Formation: How the Bible Was Transmitted, Canonized, and Translated

    Part One - The Hebrew Bible: Tanakh, or Old Testament

    Photo Essay - Mesopotamia: Fountainhead of Biblical Tradition

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    Chapter 3 - The Ancient Near East: The Environment That Produced the Bible

    Chapter 4 - The Torah: Five Books of Divine Teaching

    Photo Essay - Archaeology and the Bible

    Chapter 5 - The Prophets (Nevi'im) I: The Story of Israel from the Promised Land to Exile

    Chapter 6 - The Prophets (Nevi'im) II: Individual Spokespersons for God

    Photo Essay - Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon

    Chapter 7 - The Writings (Kethuvim): Books of Poetry, Wisdom, Short Fiction, Apocalyptic Visions, and Sacred History

    Chapter 8 - Books of the Second Canon: The Apocrypha

    Chapter 9 - Between the Two Testaments: Roman Power, Greek Culture and the Growth of Multiple Judaisms

    Part II - The New Testament: The Christian-Greek Scriptures

    Photo Essay - Archaeological Sites and Artifacts Associated with Jesus' Life

    Chapter 10 - The New Testament: A Preview of the Gospels

    Chapter 11 - The Gospels: Four Portraits of Jesus

    Photo Essay - Diverse Portraits of Jesus

    Chapter 12 - The Continuing Quest for the Historical Jesus

    Chapter 13 - An Account of Christian Origins and the Pauline Letters

    Photo Essay - Paul and His World

    Chapter 14 - General Epistles and a Vision of End Time

    Chapter 15 - Our Biblical Legacy: Evolving Concepts of God

    Glossary of Major Biblical Characters, Terms, and Concepts

    Selected Bibliography

    Index

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    This text is the best-selling non-sectarian guide for students undertaking their first systematic study of the Bible, and it is the only single-volume text that gives both a comprehensive historical-cultural background for the entire biblical era and a rigorous analysis of each individual work of the Old Testament, Apocrypha and New Testament. The purpose of the text is twofold: to acquaint readers with the content and major themes of each biblical book and to familiarize them with important contemporary scholarship. - A new chapter on historically evolving concepts of God enhances the book's value in studying the history of Judaeo-Christian religion. - Chapter 1 has been extensively rewritten to more effectively introduce students to essential facts about the origins and growth of biblical literature and to the critical techniques scholars use to study it. - Pertinent new material has been added to every chapter, giving more detailed examinations of biblical ideas and themes, and the bibliographies have been updated.… (more)
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    Actually, a very useful book. It is not exhaustive, however, it was not so intended to be. It does give good introductions to the books of the bible and also gives some good insight into scripture. ( )
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