What Is The Intertestamental Period / Apocrypha?
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- In this video, we are going to be addressing the question, what is the intertestamental period?
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- The intertestamental period is the span of time in between the end of the
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- Old Testament writings and the beginning of the New Testament. This is also known as the 400 years of silence, the time period when
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- God was not speaking from Malachi to Matthew. During this time period, two important political -slash -religious groups emerged in Israel, the
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- Pharisees and the Sadducees. The Pharisees, while more orthodox in their theology, they erred by adding to God's law through their oral tradition.
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- The Sadducees, on the other hand, were the liberals of their day, the ruling elites who denied the supernatural, including the existence of angels, as well as denying the resurrection at the last day.
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- During the intertestamental period, the first synagogues were established.
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- The Old Testament was translated into the Greek language. This became known as the
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- Septuagint. Also, many of the apocryphal books were written during this time.
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- Now, if you hear someone use the term 400 years of silence, that is usually
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- Protestant terminology, since the Roman Catholic Church accepts the apocrypha as scripture inspired by the
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- Holy Spirit. Protestants do not. A Protestant Bible, you will notice, contains 66 books.
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- A Catholic Bible contains more books, since they accept the apocryphal writings.
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- Interestingly enough, all King James Bibles published before 1666 included the apocrypha, though separately, to denote them as not equal to scripture proper, as noted by Jerome in the
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- Latin Vulgate, to which he gave the name the apocrypha. Thank you for watching.
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