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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... belief prevailed that at death a man's shade or ghost went to Sheol , situated beneath the earth or beneath the great cosmic ocean on which the earth stood , a land of forgetfulness , darkness and despair , having no continuity with ...
... belief . Already there was a growing conviction that the sense of Fellowship which they enjoyed with God in this life could not surely come to an end with death , but that even in Sheol men might be able to praise him . With this there ...
... belief in a physical resurrection may perhaps be best illustrated by reference to a writing which is not classed among the apocalyptic books , but which in this respect reflects the belief expressed there . In II Macc . 14.46 we read of ...
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Preface II | 11 |
The Reaction against Hellenism | 25 |
The People of the Book | 41 |
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