| Introduction |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Technical notes |
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| Glossary |
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PART I THE FOUNDATIONS OF JUDAISM |
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Chapter 1 Early myths: Creation, Exodus and Conquest |
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Chapter 2 The first Israelites |
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18 | (24) |
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Chapter 3 Class differences in the Israelite state |
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42 | (38) |
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Chapter 4 Exile and Return |
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80 | (26) |
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Chapter 5 The Hasmonean dynasty and Rome |
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106 | (41) |
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PART II THE FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIANITY |
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Chapter 6 Christian Tradition and the Evidence |
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147 | (26) |
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Chapter 7 The Early Christian communities |
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173 | (27) |
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Chapter 8 The Gospels and the Church Bureaucracy |
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200 | (19) |
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219 | (27) |
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Chapter 10 The Class Basis of the Early Church |
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246 | (25) |
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Chapter 11 The 'Conversion' of Constantine |
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271 | (18) |
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PART III THE FOUNDATIONS OF ISLAM |
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Chapter 12 The traditional Story of the Prophet and the Problem of Sources |
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289 | (25) |
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Chapter 13 Critique of the Koranic Tradition |
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314 | (24) |
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Chapter 14 The Revisionist Scholarship |
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338 | (18) |
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Chapter 15 The early seventh century and the origins of the Arab Empire |
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356 | (26) |
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Chapter 16 Abd Al-Malik's centralised state |
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382 | (20) |
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Chapter 17 The Class Character of the Arab Empire |
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402 | (19) |
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Chapter 18 Class Struggle, Civil War and the Abbasid Revolution |
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421 | (18) |
| Appendix I The Genesis Enigma |
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439 | (2) |
| Appendix II Two separate Noah stories |
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441 | (6) |
| Appendix III The Christian insertions into The Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18, by Josephus |
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447 | (2) |
| Appendix IV Slavery in ancient Judaism, Christianity and Islam |
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449 | (8) |
| Postscript |
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457 | (2) |
| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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