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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... earth or beneath the great cosmic ocean on which the earth stood , a land of forgetfulness , darkness and despair , having no continuity with life upon the earth ( cf. Job 10.21f ) . At a later stage of Hebrew thought the belief was ...
... earth and that the righteous dead will be raised to take part in it . In this they are followed by several other apocalyptic writings . In I Enoch 6-36 , for example , it is stated that Israel's enemies will be destroyed , despised ...
... earth to heaven , however , led inevitably to belief in a ' spiritual ' body which corresponded to its heavenly environment . In the Similitudes of Enoch , where there is a curious mingling of earth and heaven in which angels and men ...
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Preface II | 11 |
The Reaction against Hellenism | 25 |
The People of the Book | 41 |
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