| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
x, 724 p. [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
World of the Hebrew Bible -- The world of Israel's ancestors -- The world of Israel's "historians" -- The world of Israel's prophets -- The world of Israel's worship -- The world of Israel's sages and poets -- The world of apocalyptic -- Jewish responses to Greek and Roman cultures, 322 B.C.E to 200 C.E. -- Preservation and adaptation : the encounter with Hellenism -- Antiochus IV and the Maccabean crisis -- Roman invasion and Jewish response -- Herod the great -- Herod's heirs -- Roman rule in the first century C.E. -- Mid-first-century C.E. crises -- The Jewish world after the fall of Jerusalem -- The formation of Christian communities -- Jesus and the covenant -- Paul : the Jesus movement in the Roman world -- Christianity responds to formative Judaism -- Christianity responds to Roman culture and imperial policy -- Diversity in the Church -- Attempts to unify faith and practice. |
| Subject |
Bible -- Introductions.
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Bible -- History of contemporary events.
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Bible -- History of Biblical events.
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| Genre/Form |
Nonfiction.
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| Other Author |
Chilton, Bruce.
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Kee, Howard Clark.
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| Call # |
220.9 CAMBRIDGE |
| ISBN |
9780521869973 (hbk) |
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9780521691406 (pbk.) |
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