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Introduction Howard Clark Kee; 1. Why the Bible is important; 2. How touse this book; 3. The identity and destiny of God's people;Bibliographical essay; Part I. The Old Testament World Eric M. Myersand John W. Rogerson: 1. The world of the ancestors; 2. The world ofIsrael's historians; 3. The world of Israel's prophets; 4. The world ofIsrael's worship; 5. The world of Israel's sages and poets; 6. Theworld of apocalyptic; Bibliographical essay; Part II. Jewish Responsesto Greco-Roman Culture, 332 BCE to 200 CE Anthony J. Saldarini: 1.Judaism encounters the Hellenistic world; 2. Antiochus IV and theMaccabean crisis in Palestine; 3. Roman invasion and Jewish response;4. Herod; 5. Herod's heirs; 6. The world of Jesus; 7. Mid-first-centurycrises; 8. The Jewish world after the fall of Jerusalem;Bibliographical essay; Part III. The Formation of the ChristianCommunity Howard Clark Kee: 1. Jesus and the new Covenant people; 2.Paul: the Jesus movement launched in the Roman world; 3. Christianityresponds to formative Judaism; 4. Christianity responds to Romanculture; 5. Conceptual and organisational diversity in the church; 6.Christianity seeks to unify faith and practice; Bibliographical essay;Index.