THE HEBREW BIBLE
SECOND EDITION
A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION TO THE CHRISTIAN OLD TESTAMENT AND THE JEWISH TANAKH
DAVID M. CARR
This edition first published 2021
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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data Names: Carr, David McLain, 1961– author. Title: The Hebrew Bible: A Contemporary Introduction to the Christian Old Testament and the Jewish Tanakh/David M. Carr. Other titles: Introduction to the Old Testament Description: Second edition. | Hoboken : Wiley, 2021. | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020039756 (print) | LCCN 2020039757 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119636670 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119636663 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119636687 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Bible. Old Testament‐‐History. | Bible. Old Testament–History of contemporary events. | Bible. Old Testament–Introductions. Classification: LCC BS1130 .C37 2020 (print) | LCC BS1130 (ebook) | DDC 221.9/5–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020039756 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020039757
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Figures
| 0.1 | Scholarly edition of the same text as in Figure 0.2. |
| 0.2 | One of our earliest manuscripts of the book of Isaiah. |
| 1.1 | Ancient visitors to Egypt from the East (Canaanites?) |
| 2.1 | Part of the hill country of central Israel. |
| 2.2 | Typical pillared house of the Israelites. |
| 2.3 | Tablet containing a letter from Abdi‐heba. |
| 2.4 | Stela listing Egyptian conquests. |
| 2.5 | Animals feeding on trees. |
| 3.1 | Artist’s reconstruction of Solomon’s Jerusalem. |
| 3.2 | Scribe standing before the king of a small neighboring kingdom. |
| 3.3 | Student exercise tablet. |
| 3.4 | Letters inscribed into the surface of a stone. |
| 3.5 | The “Gezer Calendar.” |
| 4.1 | Copy of the Egyptian Instruction of Amenemope. |
| 4.2 | The Hammurabi stela. |
| 4.3 | Tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic containing the flood narrative. |
| 4.4 | Titian’s painting of Adam and Eve taking the apple. |
| 5.1 | One of the ivory carvings found in Samaria. |
| 5.2 | Detail from a wall‐sized panorama of the defeat of the town of Lachish in Judah. |
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