Israel and the Nations:

Author: F.F. Bruce    Revised by David F. Payne

The History of Israel from the Exodus to the Fall of the Second Temple

Format: Paperback, 258pp. ISBN: 0830815104 Publisher: Intervarsity Press

Pub. Date: August 1998

About the Author

F. F. Bruce (1910-1990) was Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester in England, and a leading evangelical biblical scholar. He was the author of numerous biblical studies and commentaries on the New Testament.  

Description

The story of Israel is one of the outstanding tales of human history. Israel, occupying a narrow strip of land between sea and desert, was positioned on an international highway of commerce and warfare. This was a people whose future would be intertwined with the stories of nations great and small.

F. F. Bruce shapes the daunting complexities of this history, nearly fourteen hundred years from the exodus to the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, into straight prose that sparkles with clarity. More than half of the book is devoted to the postexilic history of Israel, the "intertestamental" period and the first-century history that forms the backdrop of the New Testament.

First published in 1963, Israel and the Nations has achieved wide recognition as an excellent introduction to the history of Israel. This new edition, carefully revised by David F. Payne, includes some new material and a revised bibliography.

Table of Contents

1. Prefaces Introduction
2. Israel's Beginnings
3. The Philistines and the Hebrew Monarchy
4. The Reign of David
5. Solomon and His Successors
6. The Dynasty of Omri
7. The Syrian Wars and the Rise of the Prophets
8. The Fall of the Northern Kingdom
9. Hezekiah and the Assyrian Peril
10. Apostasy and Restoration
11. Last Days of the Kingdom of Judah
12. The Exile
13. When the Lord Turned Again the Captivity of Zion
14. The People of the Law
15. The Jews in the Persian Empire
16. Rival Greek Empires
17. Oniads and Tobiads
18. And Ambitious Greek King
19. The Abomination of Desolation
20. The Hasmonaean Resistance
21. Judas Maccabaeus
22. Independence Won
23. The Hasmonaean Dynasty
24. The Roman Conquest
25. The Reign of Herod
26. The Sons of Herod and the Early Roman Governors
27. Herod Agrippa and the Jews
28. Troubles Multiply in Judaea
29. The War with Rome and the End of the Second Temple Genealogical and Chronological Tables Bibliography Abbreviations
30. Index