The Lost 500 Years: What Happened between the Old and New Testaments (Soft Cover Book) by S. Kent Brown & Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
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Even the most casual reader of the Bible senses vast differences in time, texture, and doctrines between the Old and New Testaments. After reading Malachi and then turning to Matthew's Gospel, we sense that more than unspoiled time has passed lazily between the end of the Old Testament period and the beginning of the New Testament. The nearly five centuries that separate the two parts of the Bible represent far more than a mere chronological divide. They also represent a hefty cultural gap.

This book, The Lost 500 Years: What Happened between the Old and New Testaments is an . . . attempt to connect the Old and New Testaments by opening a window onto events that unfolded from the time that members of the covenant people returned from their Babylonian exile, not long before the end of the Old Testament age, to the period when Jews lived under Roman dominion at the beginning of the New Testament era.

We hope this book will help readers more fully appreciate this shaping, watershed period of history -- the centuries between the Old and new Testaments -- for its own sake. It was a colorful era of change and constancy, of despair and rising hopes for peoples of the Holy Land. Ultimately, we hope that The Lost 500 Years will also help make the Old and New Testaments into one continuous story -- from Genesis to Revelation -- instead of two stories separated by wide chasms of history, culture, and doctrine.
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