BA 203 The Inter-testament Period

This powerful course (being taught by Minister Marvin Griffin) is a study of the historical bridge of time spanning between the Old Testament and the New Testament. This time frame has been figuratively referred to as the 400 silent years or ‘The Silent Centuries’ between the Old and New Testaments, which was from 400 B.C. to 5 B.C. This course will examine the leading events, as well as the literature of that time which is of great value because they furnish background for the coming and the life of Jesus.

In this course you have been gaining an overview of the history of the interval between the Old and New Testament. You are becoming familiar with the importance of religious development between the Old and the New Testaments. You are gaining an understanding of the origin of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and synagogues since there is no mention of Pharisees, Sadducees or synagogues in the Old Testament as well as the religious contribution made by the rather strange company of men known as “the apocalypists.”

The apocalypists had a role in the religious development of Judaism and the preparation of men’s minds for the coming of Christianity.