Israel's Messianic Hope to the Time of Jesus; A Study in the Historical Development of the Foreshadowings of the Christ in the Old Testament and Beyond (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...their composition. The essential point of view, however, was gained already in the exile.4 II. The time of the exile was coincident with one of the most decisive and critical epochs of the world's history. It was also the period in which the people of Israel passed through a great spiritual revolution. Its duration is somewhat indefinite. There was a gradual dispersion of the people, beginning from the last years of the northern kingdom. It is evident that Hebrews found 1 Professor Davidson's commentary on Job (Cambridge Bible for Schools) is a rare combination of critical insight and sympathetic interpretation. 2 On Lamentations, cf. Driver, Tntfi, p. 456 ff.; Cheyne, Jeremiah, his Life and Times, p. 177 ff. On the "Holiness Code," cf. Driver, Int?, p. 47 ff., and his Commentary on Leviticus (Int. Crit. Comm.), Introduction. Cf. Driver's discussion and dating of the Psalms in his Int?, p. 384 ff. The Historical Background of the Exile Period. refuge during the troubled times of the last century of the state in all parts of the Oriental world, upon the western seacoast and the islands, in Egypt, in northern Syria, in Mesopotamia, and in the lower Euphrates Valley. It is usual to regard the " exiles " as those who were removed to Babylonia by Nebuchadrezzar and to accept the prophetic number of seventy years as the time of their sojourn there. But it is impossible to settle upon any one event in the history of the time from which seventy years can be counted to a second definite event closing the exile. Six deportations of sections of the Jewish people into the region of Babylonia seem to be referred to in the narratives. As introductory to the study of the "foreshadowings" of this period, therefore, it is necessary to take a su...