Why read the Old Testament?
"Not a dot, nor a tittle shall pass" : the text of the Old Testament
A book as library : the Old Testament canon
The Old Testament as Holy Scripture passed down by postexilic Judaism
The remnants of ancient Israelite literature
The great redactions of the sixth century BCE
The beginnings of Old Testament theology : the book of Jeremiah
The theological significance of the law
The struggle for precedence between the theologians from the exile and the Jerusalem Temple School : the book of Ezekiel
The temple as the center of the Jewish Diaspora : the priestly source
Fixing the Torah : the Pentateuch redaction
The modification of kingship theology : Second Isaiah
Prophetic eschatology : the book of Isaiah
The conflict with the proto-Samaritan community : the book of Hosea
Judaism on the threshold of the Hellenistic age : the Chronicler's history
Sects and groups within Hellenistic Judaism
On the fringe of the canon
The Maccabean period and the rise of apocalyptic : the book of Daniel
The Old Testament : an open book.
