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Tables of Contents for Old Testament Times
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
xiii
List of Maps
xvi
Recovering Near Eastern Antiquity
3
26
The Old Testament Cultural Context
3
3
Records of the Past
6
15
Literary Records
6
7
Archaeological Sources
13
5
Biblical Writings
18
3
Describing the Near Eastern Past
21
4
The Near East and the Old Testament
25
4
Ancient Mesopotamia
29
40
Outline of Geography
29
2
Near Eastern prehistory
31
8
The Paleolithic Period
32
1
The Neolithic Period
32
2
The Chalcolithic Period: Halafian Phase
34
2
The Chalcolithic Period: al Ubaid Phase
36
2
The Chalcolithic Period: Uruk Phase
38
1
The Growth of Sumerian Culture
39
4
The Rise of Kingship
43
2
The Sumerian Flood Tradition
45
2
Dynastic Rule at Ur
47
3
The Rise of Akkad
50
4
Revival at Ur
54
1
The Decline of Sumeria
55
2
The Period of Hammurabi
57
1
The Code of Hammurabi
58
3
Babylonian Religious Epics
61
2
Other Babylonian Literature
63
2
The Horities
65
1
The Habiru
66
3
The Patriarchal Period
69
30
The Mari Age
69
5
Excavations at Nuzu
74
7
Middle Bronze Age Palestine
81
8
The Hittites
89
3
The Patriarchs in Palestine
92
2
The Joseph Narratives
94
5
Ancient Egypt to the Amarna Age
99
36
The Neolithic Period
99
3
Predynastic Egypt
102
2
Protodynastic Egypt
104
1
Old Kingdom Period
105
3
First Intermediate Period
108
1
Middle Kingdom Period
109
2
Second Intermediate Period
111
4
New Kingdom Period
115
6
The Nineteenth Dynasty
121
2
Israel in Egypt
123
1
Moses
124
3
The Date of the Exodus
127
8
The Wilderness and Canaan
135
24
Route of the Exodus
136
3
The Revelation at Sinai
139
3
The Tabernacle
142
3
The Departure from Sinai
145
1
Contacts with Transjordan
146
1
Conquests in Transjordan
147
2
The Work of Moses
149
3
Early Near Eastern Law Codes
152
4
Joshua as Leader
156
3
The Promised Land and the Nation
159
32
Geographical Features
161
1
Canaanite City-States
161
2
Ras Shamra (Ugarit)
163
1
Ugaritic and Hebrew Poetry
164
3
Canaanite Religion
167
4
Ugarit and the Aegean
171
2
The City of Jericho
173
2
The Conquest of Canaan
175
3
The Meneptah Stele
178
1
The Rise of the Judges
179
1
Midianites and Ammonites
180
1
The Philistines
181
1
The Rise of Centralized Rule
182
1
Rise of Saul
183
1
The Rise of David
184
3
The Matriarchate
187
4
The Kingdom United and Divided
191
42
Anointing of David
191
2
The Establishing of a Capital
193
1
Decline of Philistine Power
194
1
Unrest in David's Household
195
1
Intrigue in the Kingdom
196
2
Unrest Among the Tribes
198
1
The Last Days of David
198
1
The Reign of Solomon
199
1
Campaigns in Syria
200
1
Solomon and the Phoenicians
201
5
Solomonic Buildings in Jerusalem
206
2
Last Days of Solomon
208
1
Division of the Kingdom
209
2
Shishak in Judah
211
1
Scribal Methods of Reckoning
211
1
Growth of Syrian Power
212
1
Rise of Omri
213
3
Hebrew Prophetism
216
2
Assyria in Palestine
218
2
Events in Judah
220
1
Further Assyrian Attacks: Hazael
221
1
The Eighth Century B.C.
222
1
The Corruption of Society
223
3
The Economic and Moral Crisis
226
2
The Decline of Israel
228
1
The Last Days of Israel
229
2
The End of the Northern Kingdom
231
2
The Fall of Judah
233
22
Assyrian Threats to Jerusalem
235
2
The Assyrian Withdrawal
237
1
The Reign of Manasseh
238
1
The Rule of Josiah
239
3
The Zenith of Assyrian Power
242
2
The Rise of Babylon
244
1
The Work of Jeremiah
245
1
The Westward Advance of Babylon
246
1
The First Captivity of Judah
246
3
The Second Captivity of Judah
249
1
The Lachish Letters
250
5
The Exile
255
16
The Reaction to Capitivity
256
2
Settling Down in Babylonia
258
5
The Letter of Jeremiah
263
1
The Outlook of the Captives
263
1
The Work of Ezekiel
264
3
Changes in Traditional Hebrew Worship
267
1
The Remnant
268
3
The Return and Restoration
271
20
The Illness of Nebuchadnezzar
272
1
The Decline of Babylonian Power
272
2
The Rise of Cyrus
274
2
The Edict of Cyrus and the Return
276
2
Opposition to Reconstruction in Judea
278
2
Haggai and Zechariah
280
1
The Work of Ezra and Nehemiah
281
2
Renewed Local Opposition
283
2
The Reforms of Ezra
285
1
Chronological Problems of the Period
286
2
Decline of the Persian Empire
288
3
The Rise of Judaism
291
18
The Beginnings of Anti-Semitism
291
2
The Greek Period
293
1
Stoicism
294
2
Epicureanism
296
1
Jewish Resistance to Greek Culture
297
1
The Scribes and the Synagogue
298
2
The Pharisees
300
2
The Sadducees
302
1
The Samaritans
303
2
The Jerusalem Temple
305
4
The Period of the Maccabees
309
28
The Ptolemies
309
2
The Selecucids
311
2
The Idumeans
313
1
Religion and Politics in Judea
314
1
Syria Annexes Judea
315
1
Intervention of Rome
316
1
Role of Antiochus IV
317
2
Reprisals Against Jerusalem
319
1
The Maccabean Revolt
320
2
End of the Revolt
322
1
Independence from Syria
323
2
Rule of John Hyrcanus
325
1
Unrest in Judea
326
2
Rule of Aristobulus
328
1
Rule of Herod
329
1
The Qumran Sect
330
7
Appendix I
337
2
Appendix II
339
2
Books for Further Reading
341
2
Index of Subjects
343
2
Index of Persons
345
5
Index of Places
350
4
Index of Scripture References
354