The Hebrew Bible. David M. Carr

book emphasizes academic study of the Bible and not just one (Christian) confessional approach to its subject matter. It should be emphasized, however, that this second edition preserves a focus on the impact of successive empires on the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/Tanakh, even though it no longer includes the previous subtitle “sacred texts and imperial contexts.”

      Finally, I have been profoundly helped in this revision by the feedback provided by colleagues and numerous classes of students at my institution, Union Theological Seminary in New York City, especially the Fall 2019 section of my Introduction to the Old Testament. I want to offer specific thanks to several colleagues for sharing bibliography and/or reading drafts of sections and suggesting revisions, including Charles Carter, Thomas Dozeman, Esther Hamori, Mahri Leonard‐Fleckman, Robert Rezetko, Jerusha Rhodes, William Schniedewind, and my wife (and fellow biblical scholar) Colleen Conway. I dedicate this revision to my beloved parents, Adrienne and John Carr, both of them teachers and lifelong learners, even as I now mourn the loss of my father two years ago.

      David Carr

      New York

      Acknowledgments

      The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge the permission granted to reproduce the copyrighted material in this book:

Figure 0.1	Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, edited by Karl Elliger and Wilhelm Rudolph, Fifth Revised Edition, edited by Adrian Schenker, © 1977 and 1997 Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart. Used by permission.
Figure 0.2	Israel Talby/Israel images/Alamy Stock Photo
Figure 1.1	FALKENSTEINFOTO/Alamy Stock Photo
Figure 2.1	Zev Radovan/BibleLandPictures/Alamy Stock Photo
Figure 2.2	Redrawn from Philip J. King and Lawrence E. Stager, Life in Biblical Israel. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001, page 29.
Figure 2.3	bpk/Vorderasiatisches Museum, SMB/Gudrun Stenzel
Figure 2.4	Jürgen Liepe
Figure 2.5	Redrawn from Othmar Keel and Christoph Uehlinger, Göttinnen, Götter und Gottessymbole: neue Erkenntnisse zur Religionsgeschichte Kanaans und Israels aufgrund bislang unerschlossener ikonographischer Quellen (Quaestiones disputatae). Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1992, page 134.
Figure 3.1	Lloyd K. Townsend
Figure 3.2	William Schniedewind
Figure 3.3	akg‐images/Erich Lessing
Figure 3.4	Courtesy of R. E. Tappy and The Zeitah Excavations Photograph by B. Zuckerman and M. Lundberg Overlay by P. K. McCarter, Jr.
Figure 3.5	Zev Radovan/BibleLandPictures/Alamy Stock Photo
Figure 4.1	© The Trustees of the British Museum. All rights reserved.
Figure 4.2	www.BibleLandPictures.com/Alamy Stock Photo
Figure 4.3	akg‐images.
Figure 4.4	Francis G. Mayer/Getty Images
Figure 5.1	Zev Radovan/BibleLandPictures/Alamy Images
Figure 5.2	akg‐images/Erich Lessing
Figure 5.3	Zev Radovan/BibleLandPictures/Alamy Images
Figure 5.4	Stiftung BIBEL+ORIENT.
Figure 5.5	akg‐images/Fototeca Gilardi
Figure 5.6	Stiftung BIBEL+ORIENT.
Figure 6.1	AP Images/NAM Y HUH
Figure 6.2	Stiftung BIBEL+ORIENT.
Figure 7.1	Stiftung BIBEL+ORIENT.
Figure 9.1	Zev Radovan/BibleLandPictures/Alamy Stock Photo
Figure 9.2	akg‐images/Erich Lessing
Figure 10.1	Puddingstone/Natural History Museum, London, UK/Bridgeman Images
Figure 10.2	Stiftung BIBEL+ORIENT.
Figure 11.1	Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH/Alamy Stock Photo
Figure 11.2	akg‐images/Erich Lessing
Figure 13.1	Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Figure 13.2	Courtesy of Carta, Jerusalem

      The Pharaoh Merneptah hymn in Chapter 3, pages 70–71, and the Cyrus cylinder text in Chapter 11, page 229: PRITCHARD, JAMES; ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN TEXTS RELATING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT – THIRD EDITION WITH SUPPLEMENT. © 1950, 1955, 1969, renewed 1978 by Princeton University Press.