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 discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls caught the popular imagination and engaged the attention of worldwide scholarship. Exciting new insights have been provided by the writings of numbers of scholars and by some remarkable archaeological discoveries. Many mysteries remain, but in recent times much light has been cast on this whole period. ‘From Malachi to Matthew’ has for long remained vague and unfamiliar to many readers of the Scriptures. In most Bibles the period between the Old and the New Testaments is represented by a single blank page which, perhaps, has symbolic significance.
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