| The Promise of the Land |
| The Taubman Professorship and Lectures |
| Acknowledgments |
| Abbreviations |
| Introduction |
 | 1— The Patriarchal Stories in the Light of Greek Foundation Stories |
| 2— The Pattern of Israelite Settlement: A Comparison with the Pattern of Greek Colonization |
| 3— The Borders of the Promised Land: Two Views |
| 4— Expulsion, Dispossession, and Extermination of the Pre-Israelite Population in the Biblical Sources |
| 5— The Conquest of the Land of Canaan: Reality and Ideology |
| 6— The Conquest and Settlement According to the Different Accounts |
| 7— Two Introductions to the Period of Judges |
| 8— The Inheritance of the Land: Privilege versus Obligation |
| 9— The Covenantal Aspect of the Promise of the Land to Israel |
| Bibliography |
 | Index of Texts |
| • | Old Testament |
| • | Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha |
| • | Qumran Texts |
| • | Rabbinic Literature |
| • | Tosefta |
| • | Classical Sources |
| • | Mesopotamian, Hittite, and Syrian Sources |
| Index of Subjects |
| Index of Scholars |