An Introduction to the History of Israel and Judah Book

	From the Preface to the First Edition
	Preface to the Second Edition
	Abbreviations
	Works quoted frequently in abbreviated form
Pt. 1	Introductory Problems	1
1	Prolegomena	3
2	The Country	6
3	Problems, Methodology, Bibliography and Sources	22
4	David and His Empire	44
5	The Empire under Solomon	70
Pt. 2	The Traditions about the Origins of the People	87
6	The Patriarchs	89
7	Slavery in Egypt and Exodus. Moses	108
8	The Settlement in Canaan	140
9	The Time of the Judges	177
Pt. 3	The Divided Kingdoms	195
10	The Two Kingdoms to the Time of the Assyrian Invasions	197
11	The Assyrian Invasions	233
12	The Kingdom of Judah to the End of the Babylonian Exile	244
Pt. 4	Under the Empires of East and West	271
13	Under the Persian Empire	273
14	Under the Macedonians and Diadochi	300
15	Under the Romans	345
	Plate 1. Sinai, Palestine, Jordan and Arabia with the Red Sea in a modern satellite photograph	367
	Plate 2. Tell Dan, town gate in unbaked brick from the nineteenth/eighteenth century BCE	368
	Plate 3. Megiddo, temple ruins and altar	369
	Plate 4. Megiddo, 'Solomon's Stables', reconstruction	370
	Plate 5. Megiddo, 'Solomon's Stables'	371
	Plate 6. Tell Arad during the excavations	372
	Plate 7. Tell Arad, temple	373
	Plate 8. Gezer, plan of excavations	374
	Plate 9. Tell Arad, temple plan	376
	Plate 10. The temple of Solomon, reconstruction and plan	377
	Plate 11. Shechem, 'Temple 7300', schematic plan	377
	Plate 12. Town gate from the tenth century BCE	378
	Plate 13. Gate from the time of Solomon	379
	Plate 14. The tell of Beer-sheba during the excavations	380
	Plate 15. The western quarter of the tell of Beer-sheba	381
	Plate 16. The tell of Beer-sheba: four-horned altar	381
	Plate 17. Remains of the northern wall of Jerusalem	382
	Plate 18. Remains of tower inserted in the northern wall of Jerusalem	382
	Appendix 1. An Introduction to the Archaeology of Syria and Palestine on the Basis of the Israelite Settlement	383
	Appendix 2. The Chronology of the First Temple Period: A Presentation and Evaluation of the Sources	394
	Chronological Table	410
	Notes	418
	General Index	445
	Index of Biblical References	456
	Index of Modern Scholars	465