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The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews, and Neighbouring Nations; from the Declension of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the Time of Christ (1716-1718) is a book by Humphrey Prideaux.

Abstract

The first History of Second Temple Judaism as "intertestamental" Judaism. An erudite English ecclesiastic, retired from his ministry because of a serious infirmity, turns a neglected appendix into an autonomous historiographical unit. He creates a new literary genere, that of "intertestamental" history, "for it may serve as an epilogue to the Old Testament in the same manner as... a prologue to the New" (from the Preface, 1715). Translated into several languages, Prideaux's work was the first international bestseller in the field of Second Temple Judaism and would remained unrivaled in scholarship for more than a century. His notion of an "intertestamental" age still survives.

Editions

Published in London, England: Knaplock & Tonson, <2 vols.>, 1716-1718. Reprinted dozens of times up to the second half of the 19th century. Revised ed. by William Whiston (1741).

Translations

1722 -- Histoire des juifs et des peuples voisins = The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews, and Neighbouring Nations (1722 @1716-1718 Prideaux / Brutel), book (French ed.)

Translated from English into French by Jean Baptiste Brutel de la Rivière and Moyse Du Soil. Published in Amsterdam, Netherlands: J.L. Brandmuller, <2 vols.> 1725.

1738 -- Storia de’ Giudei e de’ popoli vicini = The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews, and Neighbouring Nations (1738 @1716-1718 Prideaux), book (Italian ed.)

Based on the 1722 French edition. Translated from French into Italian. Published in Venice, Italy: Giambattista Pasquali, 1738.

Also into Dutch, German, and Swedish.

Contents

The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews, and Neighbouring Nations; from the Declension of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the Time of Christ (1716-1718) is a book by Humphrey Prideaux.

Abstract

The first History of Second Temple Judaism as "intertestamental" Judaism. An erudite English ecclesiastic, retired from his ministry because of a serious infirmity, turns a neglected appendix into an autonomous historiographical unit. He creates a new literary genere, that of "intertestamental" history, "for it may serve as an epilogue to the Old Testament in the same manner as... a prologue to the New" (from the Preface, 1715). Translated into several languages, Prideaux's work was the first international bestseller in the field of Second Temple Judaism and would remained unrivaled in scholarship for more than a century. His notion of an "intertestamental" age still survives.

Editions

Published in London, England: Knaplock & Tonson, <2 vols.>, 1716-1718. Reprinted dozens of times up to the second half of the 19th century. Revised ed. by William Whiston (1741).

Translations

1722 -- Histoire des juifs et des peuples voisins = The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews, and Neighbouring Nations (1722 @1716-1718 Prideaux / Brutel), book (French ed.)

Translated from English into French by Jean Baptiste Brutel de la Rivière and Moyse Du Soil. Published in Amsterdam, Netherlands: J.L. Brandmuller, <2 vols.> 1725.

1738 -- Storia de’ Giudei e de’ popoli vicini = The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews, and Neighbouring Nations (1738 @1716-1718 Prideaux), book (Italian ed.)

Based on the 1722 French edition. Translated from French into Italian. Published in Venice, Italy: Giambattista Pasquali, 1738.

Also into Dutch, German, and Swedish.

Contents