ContentsPart 1: The Great Divorce: How Wide the Divide between the Old and New Testaments? 1. The Old Testament God: Critics from Without and from Within 2. Is the God of the Old Testament the Same as the God of the New? (1): Marcion versus Moses 3. Is the God of the Old Testament the Same as the God of the New?(2): Moses versus Jesus? 4. Is the God of the Old Testament the Same as the God of theNew? (3): Moses versus Jesus? (Continued) Part 2: Lex Rex (the Law, the King): What Makes the Law of Moses So Special? 5. "From Heaven or from Human Origin?" Is the Mosaic Law JustAnother Ancient Law Code? 6. Multiple Sources and Late Dates? Does the Mosaic Law Have Multiple Authors? Was Fighting the Canaanites a Fiction from the Sixth Century BC? 7. Differences between the Law of Moses and Ancient Near EasternLaws (1): The Biblical Vision and Worldview 8.
Differences between the Law of Moses and Ancient Near EasternLaws (2): Human Dignity, Relationship, and Equality 9. Differences between the Law of Moses and Ancient Near EasternLaws (3): Poverty and Wealth Part 3: Crime and Punishment: Violations and Penalties in Old Testament Law 10. A Bit of Ancient Near Eastern Context11. Israel's Punishments as Nonliteral in the Pentateuch12. Israel's Punishments as Nonliteral in Old Testament History Part 4: For Whom the Bell Tolls: Harsh Texts and Difficult Old Testament Questions 13. How Was David "a Man after God's Own Heart"?14. Why Does God Harden People's Hearts?15. Divine Smitings (1): Noah's Flood, Egypt's Firstborn, Uzzah'sDeath 16.
Divine Smitings (2): Elisha and the Bears, and Punishing Childrento the Third and Fourth Generations 17. "Bashing Babies against the Rock"? Imprecatory Psalms in the Old Testament 18. "Let His Homestead Be Made Desolate": Imprecatory Psalms inthe New Testament 19. Loving Jacob, Hating Esau? Putting Divine and Human Hatred inPerspective Part 5: Of Human Bondage: Women and Servants in Israelite Society 20. Is the Old Testament Really Misogynistic and Patriarchal?21. Espousing Multiple Wives? Revisiting the Matter of Polygamy 22. Other Troubling Texts about Women: The Nameless Concubine,the Question of War Rape 23. "Servants" in Israel: Persons or Property? 24.
The "Acquisition" of "Foreign Slaves" (1): A Deeper Dive intoLeviticus 25 00025. The "Acquisition" of "Foreign Slaves" (2): Two Objections and theRunaway Option Part 6: War and Peace: Warfare and Violence in the Old Testament (and the New) 26. Jesus Loves Canaanites--andIsraelites Too: "Jesus 101" and theOld Testament's "Dark Texts "27. "We Left No Survivors": Exaggeration Rhetoric in Israel's War Texts 28. Revisiting the Translation of Herem: "Utter Destruction," "Consecration," "Identity Removal," "Removal from Ordinary Use"? 29. Deuteronomy's Intensified Rhetoric and the Use of Haram 30. Did the Israelites "Cruelly Invade" the Land of Canaan?31. The "Actual" God in Old Testament Warfare Part 7: The Heart of the Matter: The Summing Up of All Things in Christ 32.
"God Is Christlike, and in Him There Is No Un-Christlikeness at All": Our Critics from Within 33. Our Critics from Without (1): Two Important Questions 34. Our Critics from Without (2): Five Big Steps Questions for Small GroupsIndexes.