158134693X
Hardcover
240 pages
Sep 2005
Crossway Books

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Table of Contents

How the Bible Came to Us
What is the Bible?	6
How the Bible was written down	7
The languages of the Bible	8
Who wrote the Bible?	10
Scrolls from the Dead Sea	12
The book arrives	14
How the Bible came down to us	16
The first translations	17
Precious books	18
The Bible for the people	20
No more copying!	22
Two great translators	23
Changing language for a changing world	24
The History of Bible Times
The Bible and archaeology	26
How archaeologists work	28
The Bible and history	30
Lands of the Bible	32
Bible timeline	34
Israel today	42
Introducing the Old Testament
What is the Old Testament?	44
Old Testament time chart	45
Creation and covenant	46
A chosen family	48
A new nation	50
Into the Promised Land	53
The Judges	55
Kings to lead	56
The kingdom of Saul	58
The united kingdom	59
Solomon's united kingdom	60
The two kingdoms	61
Exile and return	64
Four great empires	66
The methods of the prophets	68
The message of the prophets	71
Poetry and wisdom	72
Introducing the New Testament
Living in Bible Times
Clothing	128
Tent life	130
The house	132
Home life	134
Jerusalem: King David's city	136
Jerusalem: besieged, destroyed, rebuilt	138
Jerusalem: Herod the Great	140
Jerusalem in A.D. 30	142
Marriage	144
Children	146
Health and medicine	147
Eating and drinking	148
Olives and grapes	149
Craft workers	150
Travel	152
Weapons and war	154
Fishing	156
The shepherd	158
Growing grain	160
The farmer's year	162
Religion in Bible Times
Religious life	164
People of the Law	166
Israel's God	168
The Jewish festivals	170
The Tabernacle--God's tent	172
The outer courtyard	174
The history of the Tabernacle	176
Solomon's Temple	180
The synagogue	184
Jewish sects and parties	185
Herod's Temple	186
The Temple destroyed	190
Varieties of religion in Bible times	192
Men and Women of the Bible
Some Bible Facts and Figures
Index	236