 | Charles Boutflower - 1923 - 370 pages
...Moses till the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, who reigned after Xerxes, the prophets who wrote after Moses, wrote down what was done in their times in thirteen books. The remaining /our books contain hymns to God and precepts for the conduct of human life." l Here the second division,... | |
 | Elizabeth Czarnomska - 1924 - 480 pages
...death. . . . But as to the time from the death of Moses till the reign of Aryaxerxes, king of Persia, the prophets who were after Moses wrote down what...to God and precepts for the conduct of human life." (Bk. 1.8.) &. According to THE TALMUD. Cent. V-IX. (BabaBathra, xiv, b) MOSES wrote his own Book, the... | |
 | 1907 - 550 pages
...read also in the church of the Laodicean*-^ and that ye also read the epistle from Laodicea." Persia, the prophets who were after Moses wrote down what was done in their time in thirteen books. The remaining four books contain hymns to God and precepts for the conduct... | |
 | John Barton - 1984 - 162 pages
...'writings'. Thus he writes: 'the prophets subsequent to Moses wrote the history of the events of their own times in thirteen books. The remaining four books...to God and precepts for the conduct of human life.' This may indeed mean that the prophets wrote thirteen books, and someone else the other four books... | |
 | Shaye J. D. Cohen - 1987 - 260 pages
...Xerxes as king of Persia, the prophets subsequent to Moses wrote the history of the events of their own times in thirteen books. The remaining four books...to God and precepts for the conduct of human life. From Artaxerxes to our own time the complete history has been written, but has not been deemed worthy... | |
 | James Luther Mays, Paul J. Achtemeier - 1987 - 306 pages
...subsequent to Moses wrote the history of the events of their own times in thirteen books. The remaining (bur books contain hymns to God and precepts for the conduct of human life.16 There is no doubt that Josephus included Daniel, who plays an important role in his Judean... | |
 | Louis H. Feldman, Gåohei Hata - 1989 - 488 pages
...Xerxes as king of Persia, the prophets subsequent to Moses wrote the history of the events of their own times in thirteen books. The remaining four books...to God and precepts for the conduct of human life. From Artaxerxes to our own time the complete history has been written, but has not been deemed worthy... | |
 | Lawrence H. Schiffman - 1998 - 812 pages
...of Persia, who reigned after Xerxes," the prophets, who came after Moses, wrote down the history of their times in thirteen books. The remaining four...to God and precepts for the conduct of human life. (41) Our history has been written since Artaxerxes very thoroughly, but it has not been considered... | |
 | Edward Earle Ellis - 1991 - 216 pages
...Prophets... who wrote the history of the events of their own times... The remaining four (ai Aorcai TETrape;) contain hymns to God and precepts for the conduct of human life. After Artaxerxes (c. 400 BC) . . . the [writings] have not been deemed worthy of equal credit . . .... | |
 | Fergus Millar - 1993 - 630 pages
...Xerxes as king of Persia, the prophets subsequent to Moses wrote the history of the events of their own times in thirteen books. The remaining four books...to God and precepts for the conduct of human life . . . From Artaxerxes to our own time the complete history has been written, but has not been deemed... | |
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This interval of time was little short of three thousand years ; but as to the time from the death of Moses to the reign of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, who reigned after Xerxes, the prophets who were after Moses wrote down what was done in their times... 
