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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... particular the personalization of evil spirits for which there is no parallel in the thought of the Old Testament.1 Even more important than Syrian Hellenism was Egyptian Hellenism which took shape under the Ptolemies . The old ...
... particular the aristocratic party who were openly pro - Syrian , saw in the acces- sion of Antiochus an opportunity for gaining their ends . The legitimate High Priest , Onias III , whose loyalties were pro- Egyptian , was an obstacle ...
... particular interest is a pseudo - historical writing set in the Persian period , which recalls the books of Esther and Daniel . 3. THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS IN CHRISTIANITY A. In the New Testament It is fairly obvious from a reading of the ...
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Preface II | 11 |
The Reaction against Hellenism | 25 |
The People of the Book | 41 |
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