Between the Testaments

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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
95
167
Index of Texts
172
Copyright

Pseudonymity
114

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