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Intertestamental Judaism, its Literature and its Significance
Beckwith, Roger
Beckwith, Roger
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"The term ‘intertestamental’, though very widely current because ofits convenience, is a term reflecting the Protestant conception of the biblical canon. This is the conception anciently championed by Jerome, that the OT of the Chris¬ tian Bible is identical with the Hebrew Bible ofthe Jews, and so ends its narrative (if not the composition ofits books also) in the period ofthe return from the exile. Between the time of Nehemiah and the time of Christ is an interval of about 430 years, and within these limits the intertestamental period properly lies. However, because ofthe use regularly made of intertestamental evidence as historical background to the NT, it is customary to extend it to the end ofthe first century AD, and to include among its literature books written even later, if, like the oldest rabbinical works, they record oral traditions from NT times."
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1990
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