Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-379) and index.
Contents
The rules of evidence -- The authorship of the Pentateuch -- Israel's primordial and patriarchal history -- From the Exodus to the Conquest and entrenchment of Canaan -- The period of the united kingdom -- Mediators between Yahweh and Israel -- The Northern Kingdom's epic: the Elohist -- Mediators between Yahweh and Judah -- The reform of King Josiah, Deuteronomy, and the deuteronomistic history -- The restoration and the priestly synthesis -- Israel's wisdom literature -- Psalms -- Apocalypticism -- The text of the Jewish Bible.