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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... symbolism The whole of this literature abounds in imagery of a fantastic and bizarre kind , to such an extent that symbolism may be said to be the language of apocalyptic . Some of this symbolism is taken over directly from the Old ...
... symbol of God's presence and power , 2 appears particularly in I Enoch 85-86 as a symbol of the patriarchs from Adam to Isaac . In one passage it represents the human Messiah and the members of his kingdom who become white bulls just ...
... symbol of Judaism , and Torah , 43f , 60 destroyed , 44 , 108 and Sadducees , 52 respect for , 82 rebuilt , 149 Theatre , 20 , 37 , 47 Theudas , 127 Tobias , 26 Tobit , 60 , 79 , 82 Torah , ch . 2 book disfigured , 28 41 symbol of ...
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Preface II | 11 |
The Reaction against Hellenism | 25 |
The People of the Book | 41 |
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