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prophetic message of the Old Testament The rst book in the New Testament canon is Matthew, a gospel directed to the immediate audience of first-century Jews Henry Kendall Booth The Background of the Bible, p 130 The New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible is recommended for word studies of this book The story is told in Jeremiah 41-44 The book of Malachi, though written around 400 B.C., prophetically describes the evil generations of Jews during the intertestamental period Read Luke 2:25-38 for two examples of believers of this period 10 The dates of some periods are not rmly xed for classi cation because there are di erent views concerning precisely when a new period began The dividing dates as such are not that crucial The date of B.C is the date of Jesus’ birth The apparent discrepancy of the number is explained by an error in calculations when the calendar of the Christian era was formed in A.D 525 (See Robert L Thomas and Stanley N Gundry, A Harmony of the Gospels, pp 32428.) 11 The Syriac nation was not a major power 12 Transparency charts showing all the details of the intertestamental period are in Moody Press’s New Testament Time Line, Charts 1-3 (artist Bill Hovey) 13 Henry E Dosker, “Between the Testaments,” in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 1:456 14 Persecution is often the backdrop of writing activity, especially apocalyptic writing, which concerns judgment for the oppressor and deliverance for the oppressed 15 James Stalker, The Life of Jesus Christ, pp 35-36 16 Very many of Jesus’ quotes of Old Testament passages are from the Septuagint version This is true also of the New Testament authors 17 G T Manley, ed., The New Bible Handbook, p 293 18 Erich Sauer, The Dawn of World Redemption, p 177 19 Ibid., p 176 20 See Chart 12 for a list of the Roman emperors 21 Erich Sauer, The Dawn of World Redemption, p 181 22 This map is from Wycli e Bible Encyclopedia, 2:1480 23 More about the geography of Palestine will be said later in this chapter 24 Some kings are referred to as ethnarchs A tetrarch (e g., Herod Antipas) was a ruler of a fourth part of a kingdom or province 25 The lists of kings and governors on Chart 12 go as far as A.D 70, which was the critical date of the destruction of Jerusalem 26 The geographical domains of the governors are not shown on Chart 12 Refer to a Bible dictionary for identi cation of a governor’s territory 27 This is from Unger’s Bible Handbook, p 728 28 Christianity did expand into other directions in the early centuries That story is described in non-canonical but accurate historical documents 29 The name Palestine is derived from the Hebrew eres Pelistim, meaning “land of the Philistines.” Philistia was a small region in the southwest, but by the fth century B.C the name was applied to the entire land of Canaan 30 G T Manley, The New Bible Handbook, p 425 31 This map is from Merrill F Unger, ... judgment for the oppressor and deliverance for the oppressed 15 James Stalker, The Life of Jesus Christ, pp 35-36 16 Very many of Jesus’ quotes of Old Testament passages are from the Septuagint... a ruler of a fourth part of a kingdom or province 25 The lists of kings and governors on Chart 12 go as far as A.D 70, which was the critical date of the destruction of Jerusalem 26 The geographical... true also of the New Testament authors 17 G T Manley, ed., The New Bible Handbook, p 293 18 Erich Sauer, The Dawn of World Redemption, p 177 19 Ibid., p 176 20 See Chart 12 for a list of the Roman