Introduction -- 1. Prehistory -- 2. History -- The Amorites -- The patriarchal tradition: Genesis -- The patriarchs -- Abraham -- Isaac -- Jacob -- Israel -- The patriarchs and Egypt -- The Hyksos -- Joseph -- Egypt and the Hurrians -- Canaan -- The fourteenth century -- Habiru = Hebrews? -- Oppression in Egypt: Exodus -- Moses, Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Leviticus -- The Exodus from Egypt -- Sinai and the Law -- 3. The age of the conquest -- The agents of the conquest -- The conquest of the south -- The Transjordan -- Central Palestine -- Jericho -- Ai -- Gibeon -- Dan, an unusual tribe -- The northern tribes -- The twelve tribes -- The Shechem assembly -- The tribal league -- 4. The age of the Judges -- The Judges -- The lesser Judges -- Jephthah -- Othniel -- Deborah -- Shamgar -- Ehud -- Gideon/Jerubbaal -- Abimelech -- Samson -- 5. Samuel and the establishment of the monarchy -- 6. The reigns of David and Solomon -- David -- The succession.
7. Schism: 933 B.C. I Kings 12 -- dating -- Jeroboam, king of Israel and Rehoboam, king of Judah -- War between Judah and Israel -- Israel: The Omrid Dynasty -- Ahab -- Jehoshaphat, king of Judah -- The Battle of Kharkar -- Elijah -- From the death of Ahab to Jehu -- Elisha -- Jehu -- Judah: Athaliah and Joash -- Kings Jehoahaz and Joash of Israel, King Amaziah of Judah -- Jeroboam II of Israel and the Prophet Amos -- 8. Assyrian domination and the end of Israel -- Tiglath-pileser III -- Judah under Uzziah and Jotham -- Isaiah -- The last years of Israel -- Micah -- Judah in the reign of Hezekiah -- The reign of Manasseh -- Nahum -- The reign of Josiah -- 9. Babylonian domination and the end of Judah -- Jeremiah -- Jehoiakim -- After the destruction of Jerusalem -- The Jews in Egypt -- The Jews in Mesopotamia -- Ezekiel -- Babylonian Judaism -- 10. Persian domination and the return from exile -- End of the Neobabylonian empire and birth of the Persian empire -- Second Isaiah -- The Persian period -- Documentation -- Return from exile and rebuilding -- Cambyses -- Darius -- Xerxes -- Esther -- Malachi -- Artaxerxes I -- Darius II -- Artaxerxes II -- The Samaritans.
11. The period of Hellenistic domination -- The successors -- Seleucid domination -- 1 and 2 Maccabees -- Daniel -- Judith -- 12. The Maccabean resistance and the new Hasmonean kingdom -- Attempt to Hellenize Jerusalem -- The Jewish Revolt -- Jonathan Maccabeus -- Simon Maccabeus -- John Hyrcanus -- Aristobulus I -- Alexander Janneus -- Salome Alexandra -- Aristobulus II -- 13. The Roman occupation -- Herod and the reconquest of Judea -- The Herodian succession -- Archelaus -- Herod Antipas -- Herod Philip -- Judea as a Roman province -- Caligula -- Philo -- The embassy to Rome -- The Jews under Parthian domination -- Emperor Claudius -- Agrippa I -- Judea to 66 A.D. -- Agrippa II -- The First Jewish War -- Josephus -- Organization of the rebellion -- The Galilean campaign -- Jerusalem -- The capture of Jerusalem -- The final resistance in Palestine -- Qumran -- Alexandria -- From the destruction of Jerusalem to the revolt of Bar Kokhba -- Christians and Jews -- The final Jewish war.
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