This detailed handbook of the Biblical World presents the reader with a review of the ancient world, from the Fourth Millennium BCE through till the Bar Kochba Revolt of 132-135 CE.
Ancient Near East in the Second Millennium B.C.; Palace at Mari
The Spread of the Early Church; Paul's Missions
Jesus in Galilee
Vespasian's campaign in Galilee, 67 CE
The war of Ehud
The war of Gideon
The Samson cycle of heroic legends (Judg 13–16) concludes the circle of narratives about charismatic leaders in the pre-monarchic period.
By the twelfth century BCE the principal rival peoples in Palestine were becoming well established in their respective areas. The Canaanites continued to dwell in the northern valleys and plains, the Philistines (with other “sea peoples”?) in the southern coastal plain, and the tribes of Israel in the hill country.
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