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• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Original Foreword (1999)
• 1 Introduction
• Historical Israel
• Biblical Israel
• The Deuteronomistic histories
• Conclusions
• Historical Issues
• 2 Joshua and the Conquest of Canaan
• The story of the conquest
• Historical background
• Scholarly views
• The construction of history
• Looking seriously at the text
• 3 Judges and the Society of Ancient Israel
• The history of the tribes
• Judges and leaders
• Israel’s social structures
• Martin Noth and Israel’s history
• The tribes of YHWH
• Basic issues
• Reconstructions
• The continuity of tribalism
• Summary
• 4 1 and 2 Samuel: Social and Political Leadership
• From tribes to kingdom
• Davidic empire and archaeology
• The argument from silence
• Leadership models
• Other forms of leadership in 1 and 2 Samuel
• Seer and diviner
• Conclusions
• 5 1 and 2 Kings and Biblical Archaeology
• Biblical Solomon
• Solomon in history
• The kingdoms of Israel and Judah
• Kings in Israel
• The stories of the Kings
• The Deuteronomistic style
• Biblical archaeology
• The history of Israel
• History as Story
• 6 Narrative Art and the Deuteronomistic Histories
• Alternative ideologies
• Postmodernity and Judges
• The methodology of narrative criticism
• What is Narrative Art?
• Narrative Art and the Hebrew Bible
• 1 Kings and narrative commentary
• The use of language
• Summary
• 7 Tragedy and History
• The nature of tragedy
• The tragic hero
• The stories of Saul and David as tragic narrative
• 1 Samuel 28
• 2 Samuel 15
• Saul and David: Tragic heroes?
• Tragedy as history
• The Deuteronomistic histories as tragedy
• Israel’s character
• From generation to generation
• Israel: A guilty people?
• Israel: A tragic people?
• 8 Reading Stories, Finding Women and Men
• Postmodernity and women
• Women and the Post Modern Bible
• Narrative and reading against the grain
• Reading stories
• Finding women
• Judges 16
• 2 Samuel 11
• I Kings 1
• Women in Judges
• Women, Strange and Good
• The profiles of women and men
• History as Theology
• 9 A Constitution for Israel
• Ideological criticism
• Old Testament theology
• The Deuteronomistic style
• Israel’s identity
• The Deuteronomistic histories
• Torah as social order
• The theocratic state
• Summary
• 10 The Character of God
• God and the Deuteronomistic story
• The Lord of Israel
• The Lord of the covenant
• God and character
• God the divine warrior
• God and violence
• The development of God
• The aniconic tradition
• God and sexuality
• God and body
• God and history
• The Deuteronomistic God
• 11 The Personhood of Israel
• Biblical Israel
• The people of the Lord: Basic principles
• Sacred traditions
• Israel as a nation
• Violence and revelation
• From nation to kingdom
• Israel as a kingdom
• Kings of Israel
• Prophets in Israel
• Sin, repentance and identity
• Fostering civic virtue
• Israel as a moral person
• 12 Conclusion
• Starting to read
• Modern biblical criticism and a system of reading
• Further reading systems
• History and the reader
• History and the Christian reader
• The reader and the texts
• References
• Index
• Copyright