THE 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bronze Age
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Jacob: abram"s godson, one of the patriarchs, moved to shechem. Moses & exodus: 1250 bc, 19th egyptian dynasty, pharaoh ramses. Death of moses: ending of exodus, 1st generation of the israelite movement dies out, 2nd generation will get to the promise land led by joshua, moves in towards the east. 2: prophets: two kind of books that are in this second section, 1. Former prophets (joshua: about the history of israel, 2. Book of judges: israel is growing larger, at the expense of the people in the land, 3. Book of samuel: split into two in the greek bible, samuel was the last judge and the first prophet in. Book of king: israel has now become a nation, taken control of all land of canaan and is now called. The writing prophets: came to israel with the word of god and to repent because they were becoming like the gentiles.