Israel and the nations : from the Exodus to the fall of the second temple

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Israel's beginnings -- The Philistines and the Hebrew monarchy -- The reign of David -- Solomon and his successors -- The house of Omri -- The Syrian wars and the rise of the prophets -- Decline and fall of the northern kingdom -- Hezekiah and the Assyrian peril -- Apostasy and reformation -- Last days of the kingdom of Judah -- The exile -- When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion -- The people of the law -- The Jews in the Persian empire -- The He- Goat from the west -- Oniads and Tobiads -- The little horn -- The abomination of desolation -- The Hasmonaean resistance -- Judas Maccabaeus -- Indepemdece won -- The Hasmonaean dynasty -- The Roman conquest -- The reign of Herod -- The songs of Herod and the early procurators -- Herod Agrippa and the Jews -- Troubles multiply in Judaea -- The war with Rome and the end of the second temple.