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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... Persian Empire was very much alive.1 In its earlier form at any rate Zoroastrianism taught a dualism in which there was envisaged an age - long struggle between the powers of light led by the good spirit Ahura - Mazda , and the powers ...
... Persian ' and was applied to them by their opponents who in this way dubbed them as innovators in theology . Later on the name was given ' an edifying etymology ' and was connected with the Hebrew root meaning ' to separate ' and so ...
... Persian influence , those ideas relating to the Son of Man may also have come originally from that same source . Throughout the oriental and Hellenistic world the belief was widespread in a Primordial Man whose qualities and properties ...
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Preface II | 11 |
The Reaction against Hellenism | 25 |
The People of the Book | 41 |
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