Présentation de l'éditeur
No attempt has been made in this work to classify the authors of the apocryphal and apocalyptic literature according to various religious sects, for this cannot be done with any confidence. As Dr. M. Gaster says: The claim put up by some modern scholars to determine exactly whether a writer belonged to the Sadducees or the Pharisees rests on a very slender basis. .. .W ecannot dogmatise on these questions, which are thus far only postulates and lack scientific proof. The various books of the literature are here discussed, as far as that is possible, in their chronological order. It does not come within the scope of this work to attempt anything like a full treatment of questions of I ntroduction, but it seems necessary to state briefly the reasons which have led the present writer to adopt certain critical theories as to the composition of the books under discussion and as to the dates to which they should be assigned. This has accordingly been done in a short introductory chapter. Attention is called in the summaries and conclusions to points of resemblance and dissimilarity in the doctrine of Palestinian and non-P alestinian writings, but in some cases it is impossible to be certain whether a writer lived in Palestine or amongst I.J.A., January 1910, pp. 17, 19.
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