Introduction
1. The Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
2. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
3. The Dead Sea Scrolls
4. The New Testament
5. Early Christian Apocrypha
6. Law
7. Historiography
8. Prophecy
9. Wisdom
10. Apocalypticism
11. The Jewish/Hellenistic novel
12. The Gospels and Acts
13. Letters in the New Testament in the Greco-Roman world
14. Cuneiform myths and epics in the Ancient Near East
15. The Hebrew and Aramaic languages
16. The Greek language
17. Text and versions: the Old Testament
18. Text and versions: the New Testament
19. Hebrew inscriptions
20. The Cairo Genizah
21. Greek and Roman inscriptions: Jewish inscriptions
22. Christian inscriptions in a (post-)biblical world
23. Biblical archaeology
24. Palestine during the Bronze Age
25. Palestine during the Iron Age
26. Israel’s ancestors: the patriarchs and matriarchs
27. Israel at the time of the united monarchy: David and Solomon
28. Exile, migration, and diaspora after the fall of Jerusalem in the sixth century BCE
29. Israel under Persia and Greece
30. Judaea under Roman rule: 63 BCE?135 CE
31. Israel’s neighbours
32. Religion in Israel: pre-exile and in exile
33. Warfare
34. Priesthood and festivals
35. The Arts: representational (architecture, artefacts), performative (music, drama), literary (poetry, psalmody) 36: Family and everyday life
37. Judaism at the turn of the era
38. The first churches: social life
39. The first churches: religious practices
4. Creation and covenant
41. Salvation in Jewish thought
42. Salvation in Christian thought
43. Ethics
44. New Testament christology: interpretations of the identity and role of Jesus
45. Interpretations of the identity and role of Paul
46. Death and afterlife
47. Purity and sacrifice
48. Jewish Bible translations
49. Jewish Bible interpretation
50. Christian Bible translation
51. Early Christian biblical interpretation
52. Modern biblical interpretation
53. Reader-response criticism and recent readers
54. The Bible in contemporary culture and society