CONTENTS

Preliminaries

Chapter 1: The Rise of Modern Biblical Scholarship

Chapter 2: The Creation of the World—and of Adam and Eve

Chapter 3: Cain and Abel

Chapter 4: The Great Flood

Chapter 5: The Tower of Babel

Chapter 6: The Call of Abraham

Chapter 7: Two Models of God and the “God of Old”

Chapter 8: The Trials of Abraham

Chapter 9: Jacob and Esau

Chapter 10: Jacob and the Angel

Chapter 11: Dinah

Chapter 12: Joseph and His Brothers

Chapter 13: Moses in Egypt

Chapter 14: The Exodus

Chapter 15: A Covenant with God

Chapter 16: The Ten Commandments

Chapter 17: A Religion of Laws

Chapter 18: Worship on the Road

Chapter 19: P and D

Chapter 20: On the Way to Canaan

Chapter 21: Moses’ Last Words

Chapter 22: Joshua and the Conquest of Canaan

Chapter 23: Judges and Chiefs

Chapter 24: The Other Gods of Canaan

Chapter 25: Samuel and Saul

Chapter 26: The Psalms of David

Chapter 27: David the King

Chapter 28: Solomon’s Wisdom

Chapter 29: North and South

Chapter 30: The Book of Isaiah(s)

Chapter 31: Jeremiah

Chapter 32: Ezekiel

Chapter 33: Twelve Minor Prophets

Chapter 34: Job and Postexilic Wisdom

Chapter 35: Daniel the Interpreter

Chapter 36: After Such Knowledge . . .

Picture Credits

A Note to the Reader

Notes

Subject Index

Verses Cited