The History Of The Christian Church Volume 1, Philip Shaff 1819-1893

34 CHAPTER I PREPARATION FOR CHRISTIANITY IN THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH AND HEATHEN WORLD. ginn bis zur Eroberung Masada’s im J. 72 nach L. Herzfeld: Geschichte des Volkes Jizrael. NordhauChr. Heidelb. 1869, 2 vols. sen, 1847–’57, 3 vols. The same work, abridged A. Kuenen (Prof. in Leyden): De godsdienst van Isin one vol. Leipz. 1870. raël tot den ondergang van den joodschen staat.

H. Grätz (Prof. in Breslau): Geschichte der Juden von Haarlem, 1870, 2 vols. Transl. into English. The Re- den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart. ligion of Israel to the Fall of the Jewish State, by A. H. Leipz. 1854–’70, 11 vols. (to 1848).

May. Lond. (Williams & Norgate), 1874–’75, 3 vols. Rep“Salvation is of the Jews.”52 This wonderful people, resents the advanced rationalism of Holland. whose fit symbol is the burning bush, was chosen by A. P. Stanley (Dean of Westminster): Lectures on the sovereign grace to stand amidst the surrounding idolaHistory of the Jewish Church. Lond. and N. York, 1863– try as the bearer of the knowledge of the only true God, 76, 3 vols. Based on Ewald. his holy law, and cheering promise, and thus to become W. Wellhausen: Geschichte Israels. Berlin, 1878, 3d the cradle of the Messiah. It arose with the calling of ed. 1886. Transl. by Black and Menzies: Prolegomena to Abraham, and the covenant of Jehovah with him in Cathe History of Israel. Edinb. 1885. naan, the land of promise; grew to a nation in Egypt, F. Schürer: Geschichte des jüd. Volkes im Zeitalter the land of bondage; was delivered and organized into a Christi. 1886 sq. 2 vols. A. Edersheim: Prophecy and His- theocratic state on the basis of the law of Sinai by Moses tory in relation to the Messiah. Lond. 1885. A. Köhler: in the wilderness; was led back into Palestine by JoshLehrbuch der bibl. Geschichte des A. T. Erlangen, 1875– ua; became, after the Judges, a monarchy, reaching the ’88. height of its glory in David and Solomon; split into two C. A. Briggs: Messianic Prophecy. N. York and Edinb. hostile kingdoms, and, in punishment for internal dis1886. cord and growing apostasy to idolatry, was carried capV. H. Stanton: The Jewish, and the Christian Messiah. tive by heathen conquerors; was restored after seventy Lond. 1886. years’ humiliation to the land of its fathers, but fell again B. Stade: Gesch. des Volkes Israel. Berlin, 1888, 2 under the yoke of heathen foes; yet in its deepest abasevols. Radical. ment fulfilled its highest mission by giving birth to the E. Renan: Hist. du peuple d’Israel. Paris, 1887 sqq., 3 Saviour of the world. “The history of the Hebrew peovols. Engl. translation, London, 1888 sqq. ple,” says Ewald, “is, at the foundation, the history of the Radical. true religion growing through all the stages of progress B. Kittel: Gesch. der Hebräer. Gotha, 1888 sqq. Mod- unto its consummation; the religion which, on its narerate. row national territory, advances through all struggles to (b) By Jewish authors. the highest victory, and at length reveals itself in its full J. M. Jost: Geschichte der Israeliten seit der Zeit der glory and might, to the end that, spreading abroad by Maccabäer bis auf unsere Tage. Leipz. its own irresistible energy, it may never vanish away, but 1820–’28, 9 vols. By the same: Geschichte des Juden- may become the eternal heritage and blessing of all nathums und seiner Secten. 1857–159, 3 tions. The whole ancient world had for its object to seek vols. the true religion; but this people alone finds its being and Salvador: Histoire de la domination Romaine en honor on earth exclusively in the true religion, and thus Judée et de la ruine de Jerusalem. Par. 1847, 2 it enters upon the stage of history.”53 vols.

Judaism, in sharp contrast with the idolatrous naRaphall: Post-biblical History of the Jews from the tions of antiquity, was like an oasis in a desert, clearly close of the 0. T. about the year 420 till the defined and isolated; separated and enclosed by a rigid destruction of the second Temple in the year 70. moral and ceremonial law. The holy land itself, though Lond. 1856, 2 vols. in the midst of the three Continents of the ancient world, Abraham Geiger (a liberal Rabbi at Frankfort on the and surrounded by the great nations of ancient culture, M.): Das Judenthum und seine Geschichte. was separated from them by deserts south and east, by Breslau; 2d ed. 1865–’71, 3 vols. With an appendix sea on the west, and by mountain on the north; thus seon Strauss and Renan. Comes down to the curing to the Mosaic religion freedom to unfold itself 16th century. English transl. by Maurice Mayer. N. 52 John 4:22. Comp. Luke 24:47; Rom. 9:4, 5.

York, 1865.

53 Geschichte du Volkes Israel, Vol. I. p. 9 (3d ed.).