The Creation of History in Ancient Israel demonstrates how the historian can start to piece together the history of ancient Israel using the Hebrew Bible as a source.

Preface, List of abbreviations, INTRODUCTION: THE NEW BIBLICAL HISTORIOGRAPHY, 1 DEFINING HISTORY, IDEOLOGY AND LITERATURE, 2 CHRONICLES AS A MODEL FOR BIBLICAL HISTORY, 3 THE TYPOLOGIES OF GENESIS, 4 DEUTERONOMY AS INTERPRETATION, 5 THE EHUD STORY AS SATIRE, 6 IDEOLOGY IN THE BOOK OF SAMUEL, 7 TEXT IN A TEL: 2 KINGS 17 AS HISTORY, CONCLUSION: THE CREATION OF BIBLICAL HISTORY, Notes, Select bibliography, Index of subjects, Index of modern authors, Index of citations from the Hebrew bible