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Authors: J. JuliusJr. Scott, Julius J. Scott
ISBN-13: 9780801022401, ISBN-10: 0801022401
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Date Published: August 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: J. JuliusJr. Scott

J. Julius Scott Jr., (Ph.D., University of Manchester) is emeritus professor of biblical and historical studies at Wheaton College Graduate School.

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Table of Contents

Illustrations9
Preface11
Abbreviations15
Introduction and Definitions17
Pt. 1The Background and Setting of Intertestamental Judaism
1Sources of Information29
2The Geography of the Land of Israel41
3A Survey of the Old Testament53
4Old Testament Ideas and Institutions63
5A Survey of the History of Intertestamental and New Testament Judaism73
Pt. 2The Crises and Responses of Intertestamental Judaism
6Crises of the Sixth and Fourth Centuries107
7The General Response of Intertestamental Judaism to the Crises121
8Intertestamental Attempts to Reconstruct Traditional (Old Testament) Institutions147
9Scribes and Tradition165
10Apocalyptic181
11Divisions, Sects, and Parties195
12Common Life in First-Century Israel233
Pt. 3The Religious Thought of Intertestamental Judaism: A Background for Christian Customs and Controversies
13Religious Thought of Intertestamental Judaism265
14The Final Age283
15The Kingdom of God297
16The Messianic Hope307
17Covenant and Law in the Final Age325
18Intertestamental Jewish Attitudes toward Gentiles335
Epilog353
App. AThe Apocrypha of the Old Testament357
App. BThe Pseudepigraphal Books358
App. CTractates of the Mishnah, Talmud, and Tosephta360
App. DCrucifixion364
App. EThe Jewish Daily Prayer and the Exclusion of Jewish Christians366
App. FApocalyptic Literature and Inspired Scripture368
App. GInterpreting Apocalyptic Literature370
App. HHow Scholarship Works373
Bibliography375
Index of Scripture and Jewish Writings387
Subject Index401

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