The Makers and Teachers of Judaism
Author: Charles Foster Kent
Year: 1911
Quelle: Project Gutenberg
The Historical Bible: The Makers and Teachers of Judaism from the fall of
Jerusalem to the death of Herod the Great
The period represented by this volume is in many ways the most complex and
confusing in Israel's history. The record is not that of the life of a nation
but of the scattered remnants of a race. It was inevitable that under the
influence of their varied environment, the survivors of the Jewish race should
develop very different beliefs and characteristics. The result is that many
different currents of thought and shades of belief are reflected in the
literature of this period; some of it is dross, but much of it is purest gold.
While the period following the destruction of Jerusalem was a reflective and a
retrospective age in which the teaching of the earlier priests and prophets
gained wide acceptance, it was also a creative era. Fully half of the
literature of the Old Testament and all of the important writings of the
Apocrypha come from these tragic five centuries. Although the historical
records are by no means complete, the great crises in Israel's life are
illuminated by such remarkable historical writings as the memoirs of Nehemiah,
the first book of Maccabees, and the detailed histories of Josephus.
(from the preface)
Start Page
All books by Charles Foster Kent
