Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Time Lines: Periods, Events, and Writings
Maps
Introduction
The Biblical Backdrop to the Story
Introduction: The Bible and the Task of History
The Mythic Period of Moses
The Period of the Judges (ca. 1200-1000?)
The Period of the Monarchy (ca. 1000-586)
The "Exile" (ca. 586-538)
The Persian Period (ca. 540-333)
Challenges to Israel during the Biblical Period
Premonarchic Challenges
The Challenges of the United Monarchy: Saul, David, Solomon
The Challenges of the Divided Monarchy
Responses to the Fall of Judah and Jerusalem (586)
Persian Period Challenges
Textual Creations as Responses to Postexilic Life
Concluding Remarks and Reflections
Biblical Monotheism and the Structures of Divinity
Introduction
Structures of Divinity: Deities versus Divine Monsters
The Divine Council and the Divine Family: From Polytheistic Ugaritic through Polytheistic Israel to Monotheistic Israel
Monotheism: From Crises to New Religious Vision
The Formation of Israel's Concepts of God: Collective Memory and Amnesia in the Bible
Introduction
Collective Memory and Amnesia
Re-membering Divinity at Mount Sinai
"Methods of Monotheism" and Collective Memory
Cultural Memory and Amnesia of Divinity through the Lens of Divine Oneness
Postscript: Biblical Memory between Theology and History
Biblical Narrative and Systematic Theology
Revelation, Tradition, and the Idolatry of History
The Paradox of Revelation: Eternal yet Temporal
Revelation and the Limits of the Biblical Canon
Biblical Supersessionism
World Theology
Sources and Bibliogrpahy
Index
Mark S. Smith is Helena Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary and Skirball Professor Emeritus of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at New York University. He is the author of over 120 articles, 17 books, and 5 co-authored books: most recently, Where the Gods Are: Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World (2016) and The Genesis of Good and Evil: The Fall(out) and Original Sin in the Bible (2019).
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