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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... inspiration , he would dictate to five chosen companions ' all that has happened in the world since the beginning , even the things which were written in thy law ' . Ezra did as he was commanded and in forty days dictated to the five ...
... inspiration and to what extent it was a conventional inspiration of a literary type . But the apocalyptists were not mere plagiarists , stiltedly copying and reproducing what the prophets had spoken . They were deeply religious men who ...
... inspiration ; and to say that the apocalyptists , in their utterances , make use of some form of literary convention does not necessarily imply that they are any less inspired for so doing . Much of this literary convention may well ...
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Preface II | 11 |
The Reaction against Hellenism | 25 |
The People of the Book | 41 |
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