It stretches itself out over about four centuries, during which there was neither prophet nor inspired writer in Israel. The interval between the Old and the New Testaments is the dark period in the hist ory of Israel.
Whatever may be our attitude to the critical hypothesis of the late origin of some of the Old Testament literally, it seems improbable that any portion of it could have reached far into the post-exilic period. Now all this is very striking and no doubt very critical, but the ground of this historical readjustment is wholly subjective, and has the weight only of a hypothetical conjecture.
Following the path of Koster, the historical position of Ezra and Nehemiah is inverted, and the former is placed in the period 400-380 BC, contemporaneously with Artaxerxes II Joe is assigned to the same period portions of Isa (chapters 63-66 24-27) are placed about 350 BC Zec is assigned to the period 260-240, and Da is shot way down the line into the re ign of the Seleucids, between 200 and 160 BC.
Thus Kent (HJP, 1899), following the lead of the Wellhausen-Kuenen hypothesis, with all its later leaders, has charted the period between 600 BC, the date of the first captivity, to 160 BC, the beginning of the Hasmonean period of Jewish history, in comparative contemporaneous blocks of double decades. Modern historical criticism has projected some of the canonical books of the Bible far into this post-exilic period. Their return to the land of their fathers was marked by the last rays of the declining sun of prophecy. The Exile left its ineffaceable stamp on Judaism as well as on the Jews. INTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THIS PERIOD$Īs the title indicates, the historical period in the life of Israel extends from the cessation of Old Testament prophecy to the beginning of the Christian era. A GLANCE ALTES TESTAMENT CONTEMPORANEOUS HISTORY$
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