TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bruce,F.F.
TI  - Israel and the nations: from the Exodus to the fall of the Second Temple 
AV  - DS118 .B76 1963
U1  - 933 
PY  - 1963///
CY  - Grand Rapids
PB  - Eerdmans
KW  - Jews
KW  - History
KW  - To 70 A.D
KW  - 586 B.C.-70 A.D
KW  - Juifs
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 586 av. J.-C.-70
KW  - Jusqu'�a 70
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242); Israel's beginnings -- The Philistines and the Hebrew monarchy -- The reign of David -- Solomon and his successors -- The house of Omri -- The Syrian wars and the rise of the prophets -- Decline and fall of the northern kingdom -- Hezekiah and the Assyrian peril -- Apostasy and reformation -- Last days of the kingdom of Judah -- The exile -- When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion -- The people of the law -- The Jews in the Persian empire -- The He- Goat from the west -- Oniads and Tobiads -- The little horn -- The abomination of desolation -- The Hasmonaean resistance -- Judas Maccabaeus -- Indepemdece won -- The Hasmonaean dynasty -- The Roman conquest -- The reign of Herod -- The songs of Herod and the early procurators -- Herod Agrippa and the Jews -- Troubles multiply in Judaea -- The war with Rome and the end of the second temple
N2  - 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.[This book covers] nearly fourteen hundred years from the exodus to the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70
ER  -