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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... influence of Hellenism It is obvious from what has been said that the influence of Hellenism could not be confined to the strictly social or literary or cultural or aesthetic fields ; by its very nature it created a definitely spiritual ...
... influence of Zoroastrianism , and indeed of the whole Perso - Babylonian culture , 1 is amply illustrated in the writings of the Jewish apocalyptists of this period and even , though to a lesser extent , in the works of Pharisaic ...
... influence would be felt outside the confined apocalyp- tic circle to which it belonged . To what extent , however , this influence was felt , it is impossible to say . In course of time in the Christian era , it was regarded with ...
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Preface II | 11 |
The Reaction against Hellenism | 25 |
The People of the Book | 41 |
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