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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... authority were a sufficient guide for the people in their fulfilment of it . In effect , whilst upholding the authority of the written Torah over against that of the oral tradition , the Sadducees regarded it as little more than a relic ...
... authority were said by the Jews to ' make the hands unclean ' , a phrase whose origin is lost in obscurity but whose use ' was probably meant to prevent careless and irreverent handling of sacred books particularly by the priests'.1 Not ...
... authority of this tradition and the authority of the written Torah . It was clear that there could not be two such independent authorities . And so there emerged the all - important belief that the Torah E 65 THE SACRED WRITINGS.
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Preface II | 11 |
The Reaction against Hellenism | 25 |
The People of the Book | 41 |
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