Part I: Sources and methods: 1 Sources -- 2 Methods -- Part II: History and religion of Ancient Israel: 3 History and religion of "Israel": basic information -- 4 General and religious history of "Israel": a historical survey -- Part III: The literature of the Old Testament: Torah and Former Prophets: 5 The overall context of Genesis-2 Kings -- 6 The legal texts of the Pentateuch -- 7 The partial compositions -- Part IV: The literature of the Old Testament: The Latter Prophets (Nevi'im): 8 The canonical prophets: Isaiah to Malachi -- 9 The Book of Isaiah: A First Isaiah (I Isa.: Isa. 1-39) -- B Second Isaiah (II Isa.: Isa. 40-66) -- 10 The Book of Jeremiah -- 11 The Book of Ezekiel -- 12 The Book of the Twelve: A The Book of Hosea -- B The Book of Joel -- C The Book of Amos -- D The Book of Obadiah -- E The Book of Jonah -- F The Book of Micah -- G The Book of Nahum -- H The Book of Habakkuk -- I The Book of Zephaniah -- J The Book of Haggai -- K The Book of Zechariah -- L The Book of Malachi -- Part V: The literature of the Old Testament: Writings (Ketuvim): 13 The Psalter -- 14 The Book of Job -- 15 The Book of Proverbs (the Sayings of Solomon/Proverbs) -- 16 The Book of Ruth -- 17 The Song of Songs (Canticles) 18 Ecclesiastes (Solomon, the Preacher) -- 19 The Book of Lamentations -- 20 The Book of Esther: A The Book of Esther (MT) -- B The "additions" to the Book of Esther -- 21 The Book of Daniel: A The Book of Daniel (MT) -- B The "additions" to the Book of Daniel: B.1 The Prayers of Azariah and of the Three Men in the Oven -- B.2 The Suzannah story -- B.3 The stories of Bel and the Dragon -- 22 The Book of Ezra-Nehemiah -- 23 The Book of Chronicles -- Part VI: The Apocrypha or Deuterocanonical Books of the Old Testament: 24 The Book of Judith -- 25 Wisdom of Solomon (Sapientia Salomonis) -- 26 The Book of Tobit (Tobias) -- 27 Jesus Sirach (Ben Sira) -- 28 1 Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremiah -- 29 The Books of Maccabees: A First Maccabees -- B Second Maccabees -- 30 The Prayer of Manasseh (Oration Manassae) -- Part VII: Basic outline of a theology of the Old Testament: 31 Concepts in the history of scholarship -- 32 Unity and diversity in the theological statements of the Old Testament -- 34 The Old Testament as part of the Christian Bible -- Appendix.