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Alasdair Livingstone (ed.), Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. State Archives of Assyria, 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1989.
For Bible abbreviations, see the box on “Bible Abbreviations, Chapters, and Verses,” in the Prologue, p. 11.
Asterisks after Bible citations, e.g. “Genesis 12–50*,” indicate that only parts of the cited texts are included.
// indicate that the texts before and after the slashes are parallel to each other.
Overview of the Historical Period
This shows major periods and corresponding texts covered in this book.
| DATES | 1250–1000 BCE (13th–11th centuries) | 1000–930 (10th century) | 930–800 (10th–9th centuries) | 800–700 (8th century) | 700–586 (7th and early 6th centuries) | 586–538 (6th century) | 538–332 (6th–4th centuries) | 332–63 (4th–1st centuries) |
| Chapter | 2 | 3 and 4 | 5 | 5 and 6 | 7 and 8 | 9 and 10 | 11 and 12 | 12 and 13 |
| MAJOR EVENTS (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) | Spread of villages in hill country Tribal “Israel” emerge Saul’s chieftainship | Formation of Davidic monarchy Jerusalem taken as capital of Judah/Israel David and Solomon | Formation of northern kingdom of “Israel” Rise and fall of Omride dynasty | Domination and destruction of northern “Israel” by Assyria Domination of Judah by Assyria | Eventual decline of Assyrian power Enactment of Josiah’s “reform” Decline of Judah into domination by Babylon First wave of exile | Destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple Second and third waves of exile of elites to Babylon | Persian victory, waves of return, rebuilding of Temple Nehemiah’s rebuilding of the wall Divorce of foreign wives under Ezra and elevation of Torah | Hellenistic rule Hellenizing crisis Hasmonean kingdom |
| MAJOR WRITINGS (AND ORAL TRADITIONS) | (No writings, but oral traditions about exodus, Trickster ancestors) | (start of writing) Royal and Zion psalms (some) Proverbs ?Non‐P primeval history | Jacob narrative Joseph narrative Exodus – wilderness story Song of Deborah | Prophecy to the north by Amos and Hosea Prophecy to the south by Micah and Isaiah | Formation of Deuteronomy and following historical books Nahum Zephaniah Early prophecies from Jeremiah | Exilic additions to biblical books Lamentations Ezekieland Second Isaiah Non‐P (L) narrative of early Israel P counter‐narrative of early Israel | Haggai Zechariah Nehemiah memoir Narratives of Temple rebuilding and of Ezra Third Isaiah Combined P and non‐P (L) Pentateuch Psalter | Early parts of Enoch Ben Sira Ezra‐Nehemiah Esther 1–2 Chronicles Daniel 1–2 Maccabees, Judith |
| MAJOR NEW IDEAS AND THEMES | Election theology | Royal/Zion theology | Exclusive devotion to Yahweh enforced (briefly) by Josiah | Monotheism | Dual Temple–Torah focus | Judaism |
Timeline
| Important texts are noted in boldface. | ||
| BCE | SOUTH (Judah) | NORTH (“Israel” in narrower sense) |
| 1300 | (Waning Egyptian domination of Canaan) | Spread of villages in Israelite hill county |
| Merneptah Stela mention of “Israel” | ||
| 1200 | Battles of hill‐country Israelites with neighbors | |
| Oral exodus traditions | ||
| Oral ancestral traditions | ||
| 1100 | Oral victory traditions | |
| Saul’s “chieftainship” David (Hebron; 1010–1002) | ||
| 1000 | David (Jerusalem; 1002–970) | |
| Royal psalms, Zion psalms | ||
| Solomon (Jerusalem; 970–930) | ||
| Proverb collections (early form??) Non‐P primeval narrative | ||
| Rehoboam (Jerusalem) | Jeroboam founds northern monarchy | |
| 900 | ||
