Reimagining at the Sources

The Very Revd. James E. Atwell, Dean Emeritus of Winchester, was educated at Oxford and Harvard. Alongside pursuit of his scholarly interest in the Old Testament he served in the Church of England for half a century as university chaplain, parish priest and cathedral dean. He died in 2020, shortly after completing the manuscript for this book.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Israel's Religious Traditions: A Tale of Two Journeys
1. The Journey of the Divine Warrior
2. Righteousness as World Order
3. The Primeval History
4. Reflections on Creator and Creation
5. The Journey of the Redeemed
Part II: Israel's Religious Traditions: Myth and Epic in Creative Tension
6. Israel's Story and the Story Israel Told
7. Rewriting the Story of Israel's Pre-Exilic History
8. Hebrew Ethical Monotheism
Part III: Second Temple Judaism: Law and Last Things
9. The Persian Period of Second-Temple Judaism
10. The Diaspora During Second-Temple Judaism
11. The Phenomenon of Apocalyptic
12. The Spiritual Universe of Early Judaism
13. The Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran to the Context They Reveal
14. Jesus of Nazareth - Palestinian Silhouette
15. Jesus of Nazareth - Kingdom Pioneer
Part IV: Conclusion
16. A Landscape of Israel's Story from its Origins to Jesus of Nazareth
Bibliography
Index