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    Verbum et Ecclesia

    On-line version ISSN 2074-7705
    Print version ISSN 1609-9982

    Verbum Eccles. (Online) vol.33 n.1 Pretoria  2012

    http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v33i1.484 

    ORIGINAL RESEARCH

     

    Forgiveness in the intertestamental period

     

     

    Sang-Mong Lee; Gerald T. Hughes; Francois P. Viljoen

    Faculty of Theology, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa

    Correspondence

     

     


    ABSTRACT

    The article suggests answers to the following questions: what are the characteristics of God's forgiveness in the intertestamental literature and what connection do these characteristics have with the Old Testament? Important passages in the late Second Temple period that expose the characteristics of God's forgiveness, such as certain Qumran texts (1QH 12:35-37, 1QH 13:2 and the Damascus Document 14:18-19), the writings of Philo and Josephus, the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha, are investigated for this purpose.


     

     

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