Sources and Authors: Assumptions in the Study of Hebrew Bible Narrative

- Cover Page (page 1)
- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Acknowledgements (page 9)
- Abbreviations (page 11)
- 1 Introduction (page 13)
- Older Versus More Recent Criticism (page 13)
- The Wider Issues (page 15)
- The Methodology of Literary Criticism (page 16)
- The Methodology of This Work (page 18)
- Reading Texts and Writing History (page 21)
- The Process of Composition (page 24)
- 2 Genesis (page 31)
- Doublets in the Patriarchal Narratives (page 32)
- The Purpose of Repetition (page 34)
- The Genealogies (page 38)
- Alternate Explanations (page 40)
- The Joseph Story (page 42)
- Accretion Models (page 44)
- The Primeval History (page 47)
- The Creation Accounts (page 50)
- The Divine Names (page 55)
- Promise and Divine Name (page 59)
- Text Divisions in Genesis 2.3 (page 62)
- The Flood Narrative (page 65)
- The Sons of God (Genesis 6:1.4) (page 76)
- Varieties of Repetition (page 79)
- Small Additions (page 82)
- The Crucial Assumptions (page 83)
- 3 Judges (page 85)
- Judges and Sources (page 85)
- The Introductions (page 88)
- The Individual Judges (page 93)
- Othniel (page 93)
- Ehud (page 94)
- Shamgar (page 96)
- Barak (page 97)
- Gideon (page 101)
- Abimelech (page 106)
- Minor Judges and the Meaning of ?JudgeZ (page 110)
- Jephthah (page 113)
- Samson (page 116)
- Connections Between Stories (page 118)
- The Last Two Stories (page 120)
- The ?Pro-MonarchyZ Refrain (page 122)
- 4 Samuel (page 125)
- Initial Orientation (page 125)
- Contrasts (page 126)
- David and Uriah (page 132)
- Rost's Thesis (page 133)
- Character and Leadership (page 137)
- Circularity of Argument (page 142)
- The Samuel Narrative (page 143)
- The ?Ark NarrativeZ (page 149)
- The Rise of Monarchy (page 158)
- Phenomena to be Explained (page 159)
- Things That Come in Threes (page 160)
- Internal and External Factors in the Demand for a King (page 163)
- Pro- and Anti-Monarchy Bias Re-Examined (page 167)
- The Ambiguity of the Philistine Threat (page 169)
- Complexity of Intention and Complexity of Situation (page 173)
- Samuel's Commission and Samuel's Delay (page 174)
- Intentions (page 178)
- David, Saul and Goliath (page 180)
- Presuppositions (page 192)
- 5 History and Historiography (page 195)
- Limitations (page 195)
- The Naïve World (page 198)
- Theories of Change (page 201)
- Political and Religious (page 209)
- Other Figures, Other Theories (page 211)
- Testing the Theory (page 217)
- Primacy of Politics (page 220)
- Harmonisation (page 221)
- 6 Kings and Chronicles (page 223)
- Kings' Source Citations (page 227)
- Chronicles' Source Citations (page 230)
- A Possible Thesis (page 238)
- Some Implications (page 240)
- Differences Between Kings and Chronicles (page 242)
- The Case Against Chronicles (page 244)
- The Chronicler's Perspective (page 252)
- Speeches of Chronicles (page 254)
- The Emphasis of Chronicles (page 257)
- David in Chronicles (page 274)
- Solomon in Chronicles (page 278)
- Rehoboam in Chronicles (page 279)
- Abijah in Chronicles (page 282)
- Asa in Chronicles (page 289)
- Jehoshaphat in Chronicles (page 291)
- Jehoram in Chronicles (page 300)
- Ahaz in Chronicles (page 301)
- Hezekiah in Chronicles (page 302)
- Manasseh in Chronicles (page 302)
- Josiah in Chronicles (page 303)
- Concluding Thoughts on the Chronicler and his Sources (page 308)
- The Sources of Kings (page 310)
- Noth's Deuteronomistic History (page 312)
- The Formulae of Kings (page 322)
- The Redactions of Kings (page 326)
- The Coherence of the Text (page 333)
- A Model for The Composition of Kings (page 337)
- 7 Historiography and History (page 341)
- Two Stage Theories (page 342)
- Greece as Context (page 347)
- Archaeology as Gap Filler (page 349)
- Political Sociology as Gap Filler (page 350)
- ?History-likeZ Fiction (page 355)
- Structuralism (page 356)
- The Ancient Text and Us (page 357)
- Bibliography (page 359)
- Index of Scripture Passages (page 385)