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Old Testament Life and Literature - English
URL: http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/gerald_larue/otll/index.shtml

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Full text of Gerald Larue’s treatise on the Old Testament in ten parts encompassing The Bible and How We Study It, Before There Was an Israel, The Hebrews, The Monarchy, The Divided Kingdom, The Last 100 Years of Judah, The Exile, The Persian Period, The Hellenistic Era, and Canon, along with a chart of events and bibliography.

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Old Testament Articles - English
URL: http://www.bibleorigins.net/OldTestament.html

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Research from an anthropological viewpoint into the origins of the old Scriptures, monotheism, the Garden of Eden, the Sabbath and other related topics.

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Kingdom of Judah - English
URL: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=593&letter=J

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Jewish Encyclopedia chronicles the history of the southern kingdom that remained true to Solomon’s son Rehoboam, from the secession to the fall of Jerusalem.

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David - English
URL: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/David

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Wikipedia article on the second king of Israel relates his life and exploits, providing links to entries on his contemporaries and on the authors of his famous sculptures.

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The Failed Prophecies Concerning Babylon made by Isaiah and Jeremiah - English
URL: http://www.ot-studies.com/Documents/BabylonvsProphets.htm

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Belying prophetic oracles announcing the Lord’s utter destruction of the city and that Israelites would take captive their captors, the city peacefully surrendered to subsequent invaders and was not desolated.

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Kingdom of Israel - English
URL: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=294&letter=I

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Jewish Encyclopedia narrates the history of the Northern Kingdom that rebelled against the House of David, from the secession of Judah to its extinction as an Assyrian province and the deportation of its inhabitants.

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On The Location of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem - English
URL: http://www.templemount.org/theories.html

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Considers alternative sites to their traditionally supposed location in the vicinity of the Dome of the Rock, providing detailed explanations, drawings, pictures and maps.

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JDPE Sources in the Pentateuch - English
URL: http://www.cresourcei.org/jedp.html

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D Bratcher outlines the four strands of the biblical traditions, where J and E are closely combined as a distinct JE epic narrative while D is the aggregate of pre-exilic and post-exilic additions, and details how they were interweaved in an exemplary passage.

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Ezra and Nehemiah - English
URL: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/biblst/DJACcurrres/EzraNeh.html

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Examines the history of the early post-exilic period through the biblical books that bear the names of the two best-known leaders of the Jewish people in those years.

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The Alpha and the Omega - English
URL: http://www.mazzaroth.com/ChapterThree/TOCChapterThree.htm

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J A Cornwell provides a chronology of the early patriarchs and details Mesopotamian parallels to Genesis narratives, like the Epic of Gilgamesh, the serpent-god Ningizzida, antediluvian giants and the ziggurats.

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The Eridu Genesis - English
URL: http://www.piney.com/EriduGen.html

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Excerpt from a Sumerian text that covers the creation of the world out of chaos and a subsequent deluge, complemented with links to other flood stories featuring a Noah-like hero.

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Captivity - English
URL: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=135&letter=C

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Jewish Encyclopedia entry on the Babylonian exile after Nebuchadnezzar’s conquest of Jerusalem, from the deportation to the consummation of their return under Ezra.

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The Last Days of Judah and the Babylonian Exile - English
URL: http://www.ot-studies.com/Documents/judah.htm

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Chart of historical events in Judah alongside others in Egypt and Assyria/Babylonia, enhanced with hyperlinks, pictures and maps.

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Documentary hypothesis - English
URL: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis

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Wikipedia entry on Wellhausen’s theory of the origin of the Torah profiles its four sources, enumerates the views that suggested multiple authors, furnishes examples of textual evidence and briefly mentions some of its modern variants.

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The Tabernacle Home Page - English
URL: http://www.domini.org/tabern/

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Reconstruction of the portable Tabernacle that preserved the Ark of the Covenant in its Holy of Holies before the erection of the Temple of Solomon, with detailed explanations enhanced by pictures of its component parts and furnishings.

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