The Intertestamental writings include the books of First and Second Maccabees. They chronicle the fight between Antiochus Epiphanes and the family of the Maccabees. They are not included in the current Protestant Canon, but are found in the Roman Catholic Bible.
The intertestamental period should be studied if you are undertaking an advanced course of study in theology or Near Eastern history.
It is disputable whether the period was really as much as 400 years, since the Book of Daniel is believed to have been written during the second century BCE. However, this period is called the intertestamental period.Several of the deuterocanonical books, accepted as scripture by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches, were also written during this period.
The 400 years between the Old and New Testaments of the Bible are called in the Intertestamental Period. During that time, the Maccabean Revolt happened and the Roman Empire came into power in the region.
The Scriptures.
The bible came first.
The '400 silent years' between the Old and New Testaments had two types of writings some will undoubtedly say were the most important. Aristotle and his philosophical writings or the Greek translation of the Old Testament called the Septuagint.
The intertestamental period should be studied if you are undertaking an advanced course of study in theology or Near Eastern history.
The period between the Old and the New Testament is known as the Intertestamental Period. Events and writings originating between the final prophet mentioned in the OT (Malachi, about 450 B.C.) and the birth of Christ (about 4 B.C.).
No, the Septuagint was.
the intertestamental period:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertestamental_period
people were scared of the flying monkeys that were coming to attack everyone.
The Jews produced many writings during the Intertestamental Period. The Apocrypha are writings included, for the most part, in the Septuagint. They were translated into Latin and became a part of the Latin Vulgate, the authoritive Latin Bible. First Maccabees is our chief source for the history of the period from Antiochus Epiphanes to John Hyrcanus.A second group of writings is the Pseudepigrapha, a larger collection than the Apocrypha, but there is no final agreement as to which writings should be included in it. Fifty-two writings are included in two volumes: The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha,edited by James H. Charlesworth. They are attributed to noted people of ancient times as Adam, Abraham, Enoch, Ezra, and Baruch. For the most part they were written in the last centuries before the birth of Jesus, although some of them are from the first century A.D.The final group of writings are the Qumran scrolls, popularly known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. These writings include OT manuscripts, writings of the Qumran sect, and writings copied from other sources and used by the sect. These writings show us something of the life and beliefs of one group of Jews in the last two centuries before Jesus.
The writings of the Church Fathers, The writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, The writings of CS Lewis, The writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Roman Empire, Greek Empire, and Persian Empire
It is disputable whether the period was really as much as 400 years, since the Book of Daniel is believed to have been written during the second century BCE. However, this period is called the intertestamental period.Several of the deuterocanonical books, accepted as scripture by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches, were also written during this period.
The Writings of the Church Fathers.
Miscellaneous Writings was created in 1995.