Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford history of the biblical world / edited by Michael D. Coogan.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Coogan, Michael David

Description

xi, 487 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Examines the history, art, architecture, languages, literatures, society, and religion of Biblical Israel and early Judaism and Christianity.

Subjects

• Bible > History of Biblical events
• Civilization, Ancient
• Bible > History of contemporary events

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-455) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 0195139372 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780195139372 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0195087070
• 9780195087079

LCCN

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OCLC

• 44650958
• SCSB-9989911

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library