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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... given religious sanction to their bid for freedom . They were not a political party but essentially a religious sect , drawn largely from the middle class in society , which came increasingly to hold a strong religious and social ...
... given to those books described by Protes- tants as ' apocryphal ' , and the word ' apocryphal ' is given to those known as ' pseudepigraphal ' . Where , for the sake of convenience , a distinction must be made , the Protestant usage ...
... given . They represent several types of literature , but undoubtedly the most common and the most important is that of apocalyptic . Some of them are apocalypses , properly so called , whilst others , though not predominantly ...
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Preface II | 11 |
The Reaction against Hellenism | 25 |
The People of the Book | 41 |
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