Between the TestamentsFortress Press, 1965 - 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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... Christian Era or were regarded as canonical in Alexandria . No limit had as yet been placed on ' the rest of the books ' . The Greek Bible which emerged and which was ultimately to be taken over by the Christian Church was much less ...
... Christian community their use would become even more widespread . With the exception of the canonical book of Daniel the tradition of apocalyptic is Christian and not Jewish . The numerous versions of II ( 4 ) Esdras indicates what a ...
... Christian Church , for it was surely a foretelling of the triumph of that same kingdom in which the Christians themselves believed . Only when the Christian expectation of an early return of Christ faded did these books and their Christian ...
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Preface II | 11 |
The Reaction against Hellenism | 25 |
The People of the Book | 41 |
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