Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BOOKS OF THE APOCRYPHA: THEIR ORIGIN, TEACHING AND CONTENTS CHAPTER I The Hellenistic Movement [literature.?Droysen, Geschichte des Hellenismu s (3rd ed., 1877); Schurer, A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ, II, i. pp. 1-149 (189o-1891), German ed. II, pp. 1-267 (19o1-19o9); Usener, Gotternamen (1896); Kaerst, Geschichte des hellenistischen Zeitalters (19o1, 19o9); Zeller, Die Philosophic der Griechen, III, i. ii. (4th ed., 19o3, 19o9); Zeller, Outlines of the History of Greeh Philosophy (Engl. ed., 19o9); Rohde, Psyche (3rded., 19o3); Edwyn Bevan, Jerusalem under the High- priests (19o4); M. Friedlander, Griechische Philosophic im Allen Testament (19o4); Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte (19o6); Mahaffy, The Silver Age of the Greeh World (19o6); Kriiger, Hellenismus und Judenthum im neutestamentlichen Zeitalter (19o8); Farnell, Greeh Religion (1912); Wendland, Die Hellenistisch-Romische Kultuf in ihren Beziehungen zu Judentum und Christentum (1912); Edwyn Bevan, Stoics and Sceptics (1913); Farnell’s art. on
Greek Religion
in Hastings’ Diet, of Religion and Ethics.] TO offer in any detail an account of such an immense subject as the Hellenistic Movement would be out of the question here; but no study which has to do with Jewish religion or culture of the three last pre-Christian centuries can be taken in hand without some reference to the Movement which so profoundly affected the world of those times. The object of the present chapter is, therefore, to indicate the main directions in which Hellenistic influence was exercised; so much is essential when it is remembered thatythe books of the Apocrypha form anintegral part of the Greek Old Testament, which is itself one of the most striking products …