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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... faith of its fathers and prepared the way not only for its own survival but also for the birth of the Christian religion . 2. THE REACTION AGAINST HELLENISM Mention has been made of the policy of toleration followed by both Ptolemies ...
... faith and had been taught to apply their religion to their everyday life in the new situation and conditions developing in Palestine . The Torah be came increasingly the focus of their attention and gradually came to mean more and more ...
... faith goes beyond the faith in the divine control of history , indeed . It is a faith in the divine initiative in history for the attainment of its final goal.'2 The advance of the apocalyptists on the prophets in this respect is to be ...
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Preface II | 11 |
The Reaction against Hellenism | 25 |
The People of the Book | 41 |
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