Includes bibliography.

The creation -- The garden of eden and the creation of the first man and woman -- The fall of men -- Cain and abel -- The ark of noah and the greate flood -- The tower of babel -- The call of abraham and god's promises to him -- Isaac, the son of abraham -- Jacob (israel), the son of isaac -- The twelwe sons of isreal -- Joseph in egypt -- The burning bush -- Moses and the crossing of the divided sea -- God gives the law in mount sinai -- Joshua and the conquest of canaan -- The judges and the enemies of israel -- Saul, The first king -- David, the ideal king -- Solomon, the temple builder -- The kingdom of david, divided in two -- The kings vs. the prophets (ahab-jezebel vs. elijah) -- Assyria and the fall of the obstinate kingdom of israel -- The kingdom of judah and its survival from the assyrian onslaught -- Babylon and the fall of the proud kingdom of judah -- The people of god in a foreign land -- The flexed arms of persia and the coming of foreign savior -- The persian decree of returning to his own country of origin -- The rebuilding of the temple and the walls in jerusalem -- The flexed arms of the greeks and the reign of antiochus IV -- The clash of two cultures: the greek and the jewish -- The flexed arms of rome and the birth of the promised child

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