Exeter: The Paternoster Press, 1981. Hbk. ISBN: 0 85364 284 2. pp.310.
© Paternoster Press 1981. Reproduced by permission.

Table of Contents

		Pages
	Frontpiece map: The Near East in the time of the Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires pdf
	List of Illustrations pdf	xiii
	Abbreviations pdf	xv
	Preface pdf	xvii
	PART I - THE KINGS
1.	Israel before the Monarchy pdf	3
2.	Prelude to Monarchy pdf	13
3.	The First King: Saul pdf	22
4.	David's Rise to Power pdf	36
5.	David's Later Years pdf	48
6.	The Reign of Solomon pdf	59
7.	The Early Divided Monarchy pdf	66
8.	Syria Rampant pdf	85
9.	New Prosperity pdf	91
10.	The Fall of Samaria pdf	97
11.	The Reign of Hezekiah pdf	106
12.	Judah's Decline and Fall pdf	114
	PART II - THE ENEMIES
13.	The Philistines pdf	135
14.	Transjordan and Amalek pdf	143
15.	Syria pdf	152
16.	Phoenicia pdf	161
17.	Egypt pdf	167
18.	Assyria pdf	177
19.	Babylon pdf	189
20.	The Enemy Within: the Canaanites pdf	198
21.	The Enemy Within: False Religion pdf	207
	PART III - THE PROPHETS
22.	The Early Period pdf	225
23.	The Eighth Century pdf	236
24.	Jeremiah and his Contemporaries pdf	249
	PART IV - THE FAITH
25.	The God Who Speaks pdf	261
26.	The God Who Acts pdf	271
27.	The Future Perspective pdf	281
	Appendix: The Chronology of the Hebrew Kings pdf	291
	Select Bibliography pdf	295
	Index of Biblical Passages pdf	299
	General Index pdf	304
	Endpiece Map: The Hebrew Kingdoms pdf