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Part I The text in its contexts -- Chapter 1: Angles of vision on the Hebrew Bible -- Chapter 2: The world of the Hebrew bible -- Chapter 3: The literary history of the Hebrew Bible -- Part II Intertribal confederacy: Israel's Revolutionary beginnings -- Chapter 4: Traditions about the fathers and mothers of Israel -- Chapter 5: Traditions about Moses: Exodus, Covenant, and the Lawgiving -- Chapter 6: Traditions about intertribal Israel's rise to power in Canaan -- Part III Monarchy: Israel's counterrevolutionary -- Chapter 7: Traditions about the United Kingdom -- Chapter 8: Traditions about the Northern Kingdom -- Chapter 9: Traditions about the Southern kingdom -- Part IV Home rule under great empires: Israel's Colonial recovery -- Chapter 10: Sociohistoric horizons of Colonial Israel -- Chapter 11: Traditions of Colonial Israel: completing the Law and the Prophets -- Chapter 12: Traditions of Colonial Israel: the writings -- Conclusion: The interplay of text, concept, and setting in the Hebrew Bible