| Contents |
What is Scripture? -- Hebrew Bible or Old Testament? -- What's in the Hebrew Bible? -- Where did the Hebrew Bible come from? -- Academic study of the Hebrew Bible -- The importance of geography -- Everyday life in Biblical times -- The grand narrative -- Narrative and history -- The Hebrew Bible as a religious text -- The nature of the universe -- The supernatural world -- On being human -- The ideal society -- Stories and faith -- Stories of origins -- Ancestral narratives -- The Exodus narrative -- The Deuteronomistic narrative : overview -- The Deuteronomistic narrative : individual stories -- Postexilic narratives -- The laws of Torah -- Purity laws -- Social laws -- Encountering the holy -- Family religion -- Community religion -- State religion -- The sacrificial system -- Worship in the Psalms -- The world of the prophets -- The early preexilic prophets -- The later preexilic prophets -- The exilic prophets -- The postexilic prophets -- The rise of Apocalyptic -- The way of wisdom -- Other paths to wisdom. |
| Summary |
In this work, Christopher D. Stanley provides a Hebrew Bible textbook which approaches the Bible through the categories of comparative religion. It carefully distinguishes the religion of ancient Israel from the religion represented in the Bible. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 518) and indexes. |
| Genre/form | Comparative studies. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Textbooks. |
| LCCN | 2008039758 |
| ISBN | 9780800663476 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0800663470 (alk. paper) |
