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- adjective Christianity Pertaining to the period of time between the writing of
Malachi and the wrtiting of theNew Testament ; roughly the last four centuries B.C.
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All Star Comics, the JSA's home in print), and it began a long "intertestamental" period in the history of DC-Earth.
Blog@Newsarama 2008
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David, would the Pirkei Avot be a good place to start checking out intertestamental Judaism?
Freshwater: The Board's rebuttal case - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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David, would the Pirkei Avot be a good place to start checking out intertestamental Judaism?
Freshwater: The Board's rebuttal case - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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And what if can be shown that intertestamental literature had an apocalyptic dominance too?
Mythicism and Historicism as Theories (and an Altar Call to Take a Leap of Doubt) James F. McGrath 2010
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Seriously, any group that bounces around from science pedagogy to intertestamental Judaism is pretty awesome in my book.
Freshwater: The Board's rebuttal case - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Including entries for many more words, the new edition also lists more than 25,000 additional references to classical, intertestamental, Early Christian, and modern literature.
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Of course such language is late intertestamental in origin, absorbed by the N.T. in the first century.
Debunking Debunking Christianity Christianity James F. McGrath 2009
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The concept that hades was a place divided into two compartments, one of suffering for the wicked and the other of bliss for the righteous, was a Jewish belief that had developed during the intertestamental period, the period of time in between when the Old and New Testaments were written.
Mailbag Monday: Edition "Why do the kooks write so much? And why do they think I want to read it?" Angry Professor 2007
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The concept that hades was a place divided into two compartments, one of suffering for the wicked and the other of bliss for the righteous, was a Jewish belief that had developed during the intertestamental period, the period of time in between when the Old and New Testaments were written.
Archive 2007-12-01 Angry Professor 2007
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The first illustration called on chapter eleven, which itself drew from the entire Old Testament and intertestamental periods.
Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews 1973
uselessness commented on the word intertestamental
Pertaining to the period of time between the writing of the Old and New Testaments.
October 8, 2007