| Preface | p. xi |
| Survey of the Old Testament and Its History | |
| The Parts of the Old Testament | p. 3 |
| Name and Structure | p. 3 |
| The Formation of the Canon | p. 6 |
| The Stages of Israel's History | p. 8 |
| Nomadic Antiquity | p. 9 |
| The Early Period before the State (Settlement and Age of the Judges) | p. 15 |
| The Period of the Monarchy | p. 18 |
| The Period of the United Kingdoms | p. 19 |
| The Period of the Divided Kingdoms The Northern Kingdom, Israel | p. 20 |
| The Southern Kingdom, Judah | p. 23 |
| The Exilic and Postexilic Periods | p. 25 |
| Aspects of Social History | p. 28 |
| The Nomadic Clans | p. 28 |
| Ownership of Land | p. 31 |
| Changes Brought by the Monarchy | p. 33 |
| Social Contrasts in the Time of the Major Prophets | p. 35 |
| The Postexilic Situation | p. 37 |
| Traditions and Documentary Sources of the Pentateuch and the Historical Books | |
| The Pentateuch | p. 41 |
| Name and Structure | p. 41 |
| Stages and Problems of Pentateuchal Scholarship | p. 44 |
| Criticism of Moses' Authorship | p. 44 |
| Discovery and Delimitation of the Pentateuchal Sources | p. 45 |
| Dating of the Documentary Sources | p. 46 |
| Results and Still Open Questions of Literary Criticism | p. 48 |
| Form Criticism and Tradition History | p. 58 |
| Selected Types of Narrative | p. 63 |
| Myth and Primeval History | p. 63 |
| The Saga as a Form of Transmission | p. 65 |
| The Individual Saga | p. 65 |
| Etiological Motifs | p. 69 |
| Sanctuary Legends | p. 69 |
| Saga Cycles and Later Form of the Sagas | p. 70 |
| The Joseph Novella | p. 71 |
| The yahwist History | p. 75 |
| Introductory Questions | p. 75 |
| Theological Intentions | p. 79 |
| The Elohist History | p. 84 |
| Introductory Questions | p. 84 |
| Theological Intentions | p. 89 |
| The Priestly Document | p. 93 |
| Introductory Questions | p. 93 |
| Theological Intentions | p. 102 |
| Old Testament Law | p. 110 |
| The Forms of Legal Statement | p. 110 |
| Collections of Laws | p. 114 |
| The Decalogue | p. 114 |
| The Book of the Covenant | p. 116 |
| The Law of Holiness | p. 118 |
| Deuteronomy | p. 120 |
| Introductory Questions | p. 120 |
| Theological Intentions | p. 129 |
| The Deuteronomistic History | p. 136 |
| Introductory Questions | p. 136 |
| Theological Intentions | p. 140 |
| From the Book of Joshua to the Books of Kings | p. 145 |
| The Book of Joshua | p. 145 |
| The Book of Judges | p. 148 |
| The Books of Samuel | p. 151 |
| The Books of Kings | p. 156 |
| The Chronicler's History | p. 160 |
| Chronicles | p. 160 |
| Ezra and Nehemiah | p. 162 |
| Theological Intentions | p. 167 |
| The Prophets | |
| The Form of Prophecy | p. 173 |
| Prophetic Utterance and Prophetic Book | p. 173 |
| Distinction between Oral Proclamation and Written Record | p. 173 |
| Distinction between Individual Utterance and Composition | p. 175 |
| Distinction between Original Prophetic Utterance and Later Redaction | p. 177 |
| Main Categories of Prophetic Literature | p. 180 |
| Stories about the Prophets | p. 180 |
| Visions | p. 182 |
| Words | p. 183 |
| Questions in Contemporary Study of the Prophets | p. 188 |
| Precursors of the Writing Prophets | p. 190 |
| Amos | p. 194 |
| Hosea | p. 201 |
| Isaiah | p. 209 |
| Micah | p. 220 |
| Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, and Obadiah | p. 225 |
| Jeremiah | p. 233 |
| Ezekiel | p. 246 |
| Second Isaiah and Third Isaiah | p. 256 |
| Haggai, Zechariah, Second Zechariah, Malachi | p. 270 |
| Joel and Jonah | p. 282 |
| Daniel | p. 288 |
| Liturgical and Sapiential Poetry | |
| The Psalter | p. 299 |
| Song of Solomon, Lamentations, Ruth, and Esther | p. 311 |
| Proverbs | p. 321 |
| Qoheleth or Ecclesiastes: Solomon the Preacher | p. 328 |
| The Book of Job | p. 333 |
| Theology and Hermeneutics | |
| Discourse about God in the Old Testament | p. 343 |
| The Question of the Unity of the Old Testament Aspects of a "Theology of the Old Testament" | p. 366 |
| On Understanding Humankind: Anthropological Insights of the Old Testament | p. 372 |
| For and Against the Old Testament: Hermeneutic Themes | p. 389 |
| Bibliography | p. 399 |
| Index | p. 449 |
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