Between the Testaments

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Fortress Press - 176 oldal
In most Bibles the period between the Old and the New Testaments is represented by a single blank page which, perhaps, has symbolic significance. 'From Malachi to Matthew' has for long remained vague and unfamiliar to many readers of the Scriptures. Many mysteries remain, but in recent times much light has been cast on this whole period. Exciting new insights have been provided by the writings of numbers of scholars and by some remarkable archaeological discoveries. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls caught the popular imagination and engaged the attention of worldwide scholarship. In this small volume an attempt is made to review these years in the light of recent study and discoveries and in particular to assess the religious contribution made by that rather strange company of men known as 'the apocalyptists'. The purpose of this book is selective rather than exhaustive, indicating the part which the apocalyptists had to play within the religious development of Judaism and in the preparation of men's minds for the coming of Christianity.

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Preface
11
The Reaction against Hellenism
25
The People of the Book 41 44347 4953
41
The Torah and the Sects
48
The Sacred Writings
58
The Apocryphal Literature
75
The other apocryphal books or the pseudepigrapha
85
PART
93
The Transcendent Messiah and the Son of Man
130
The Resurrection and the Life Beyond
143
The Nature of Survival
151
B The resurrection body and its relation to
158
Rulers and Events
165
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167
Index of Texts
172
Copyright

Pseudonymity
114

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138. oldal - I saw in the night visions, and behold there came with the clouds of heaven one like unto a son of man, and he came even to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him...
139. oldal - Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand : repent ye, and believe in the gospel.
19. oldal - Let us go and make a covenant with the Gentiles that are round about us, for since we were parted from them, many evils have befallen us", And the saying was good in their eyes. And certain of the people were forward herein and went to the king, and he gave them license to do after the ordinances of the Gentiles.
31. oldal - Simon honourably ; and that the Jews and the priests were well pleased that Simon should be their leader and high priest for ever, until there should arise a faithful prophet...
138. oldal - But if I by the finger of God cast out devils, then is the kingdom of God come upon you.
124. oldal - And he himself will be pure from sin, so that he may rule a great people. He will rebuke rulers, and remove sinners by the might of his word...
45. oldal - Judah on every side they builded idol altars. And at the doors of the houses and in the streets they burnt incense. And they rent in pieces the books of the law which they found, and set them on fire.
153. oldal - Blessed is the man who does not direct his heart with malice against any man, and helps the injured and condemned, and raises the broken down, and shall do charity to the needy, because on the day of the great judgment every weight, every measure and every makeweight will be as in the market, that is to say they are hung on scales and stand in the market, and every one shall learn his own measure, and according to his measure shall take his reward.
24. oldal - All the things that I have told thee, we have written. Sit and write all the souls of mankind, however many of them are born, and the places prepared for them to eternity; for all souls are prepared to eternity, before the formation of the world.

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