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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... Scriptures into the language of the people . In Aramaic - speaking lands the reading of the Scriptures in the synagogue was accompanied by an oral rendering ( see pp . 63ff ) . This custom was believed to go back to the time of Ezra ...
... SCRIPTURES A. The Hebrew Canon According to Jewish usage the Hebrew Scriptures are divided into three groups known as Torah ( Law ) , Nebi'im ( Prophets— Former and Latter ) and Kethubim ( Hagiographa or Writings ) . These consist of ...
... Scripture . B. The Scriptures in the Dispersion We know that already , by about the year 250 B.C. , the Penta- teuch had been translated into Greek for the use of the Jews of the Dispersion , and the preface to the Greek version of Ben ...
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Preface II | 11 |
The Reaction against Hellenism | 25 |
The People of the Book | 41 |
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