<h2>Preface v<h2>Part One An Introduction to the Bible and the Biblical World <h3>Chapter 1 The Bible: An Overview<h3>Chapter 2 How the Bible Was Created: Transmission, Canonization, and Translation<h3>Chapter 3 The Ancient Near East: The Environment That Produced the Bible <h2>Part Two The Torah (Divine Instruction) <h3>Chapter 4 The Five Books of Torah (the Pentateuch): Themes and Theories <h3>Chapter 5 In the Beginning: The Book of Genesis<h3>Chapter 6 Freedom and Responsibility: The Book of Exodus<h3>Chapter 7 Law, Holiness, and Rebellion: The Books of Leviticus and Numbers <h3>Chapter 8 A New Vision of Moses’ Teaching: The Book of Deuteronomy <h2>Part Three The Prophets I <h3>Chapter 9 The Story of Ancient Israel: How the Promised Land Was Gained and Lost<h3>Chapter 10 Faith and War: The Book of Joshua <h3>Chapter 11 Yahweh’s Warriors: The Book of Judges<h3>Chapter 12 The Rise of David and the Birth of a Kingdom: The Books of 1 and 2 Samuel<h3>Chapter 13 From the Glory of Solomon to Exile in Babylon: The Books of 1 and 2 Kings<h2>Part Four The Prophets II <h3>Chapter 14Israel’s Spokespersons for God<h3>Chapter 15 Prophets to the Northern Kingdom: The Oracles of Amos and Hosea <h3>Chapter 16 Prophets of the Assyrian Threat: The Oracles of Isaiah, Micah, Zephaniah, and Nahum<h3>Chapter 17 Prophets of the Babylonian Crisis: The Oracles of Jeremiah, Habakkuk, and Obadiah <h3>Chapter 18 Prophets in Exile: The Oracles of Ezekiel and Second Isaiah <h3>Chapter 19 After the Exile—Israel’s Last Prophets: The Oracles of Haggai, Zechariah, Third Isaiah, Joel, Malachi, and Jonah<h2>Part Five The Writings <h3>Chapter 20 After the Exile: Israel’s Changing Life with God<h3>Chapter 21 The Postexilic Readjustment: The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah <h3>Chapter 22 Worshiping at the Second Temple: Hebrew Poetry and the Book of Psalms<h3>Chapter 23Israel’s Wisdom Writers: The Books of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes <h3>Chapter 24 Festival Scrolls: The Books of Ruth, Song of Songs, Lamentations, and Esther<h3>Chapter 25 Reinterpreting Israel’s History: The Books of 1 and 2 Chronicles <h3>Chapter 26 Keeping God’s Law in a Hostile World: Revolt of the Maccabees and the Book of Daniel<h3>Chapter 27 The Second Canon: Books of the ApocryphaPart Six The New Testament<h3>Chapter 28 The World in Which Christianity Originated: Roman Power, Greek Culture, and the Cult of Deified Rulers<h3>Chapter 29 First-Century Judaism: Diversity, Messianic Expectations, and the Birth of Christianity <h3>Chapter 30 Telling Jesus’ Story: The Gospel of Mark<h3>Chapter 31 The Synoptic Problem: The Gospel of Matthew and Its Relationship to the Gospels of Mark and Luke<h3>Chapter 32 Jesus as a Savior for “All Nations”: The Gospel of Luke <h3>Chapter 33 Another Way of Telling Jesus’ Story: The Gospel of John <h3>Chapter 34 An Account of Early Christianity: The Book of Acts<h3>Chapter 35 Paul and the Gentile Mission: Letters to Churches at Thessalonica, Corinth, Galatia, Rome, Philippi, and Colossae<h3>Chapter 36 Continuing the Pauline Tradition: Second Thessalonians, Colossians, Ephesians, and the Pastoral Epistles <h3>Chapter 37General Letters on Faith and Behavior: Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles<h3>Chapter 38 Continuing the Apocalyptic Hope: The Book of Revelation <h3>Chapter 39 Our Biblical Legacy: Evolving Concepts of God<h2>Glossary<h2>Index
