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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... Jewish people and their religious faith . B. The Septuagint and Hellenistic literature From an early date there were Jewish settlements in Egypt , and Alexandria soon won for itself an honoured name , particularly as a literary centre ...
... Jewish nationalism sprang into revolt and continued right down to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish state in A.D. 70 . The years following 63 B.C. were very troubled ones indeed whose complications can only be lightly touched ...
... Jews the very embodiment of their religion . The challenge of Hellenism was not simply a matter of politics or aesthetics or morals or culture ; it was a blow struck at the very roots of the Jewish faith which found expression in the ...
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Preface II | 11 |
The Reaction against Hellenism | 25 |
The People of the Book | 41 |
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