The Spiritual World of Ancient Israel and Greece

What was God doing between the Old and New Testaments?

There was a four-hundred-year gap between the last Old Testament prophet and the New Testament arrival of Jesus Christ. It’s called the Intertestamental period.

What many people don’t realize is that there were some very significant things happening and they were related to the Bible and its prophecies as described by the prophet Daniel.

This book explores some of the biblical and historical meaning of it all.

Written by respected Christian author Brian Godawa, known for his popular book, When Giants Were Upon the Earth, about Nephilim giants, Watchers, angels, demons, pagan gods and other supernatural oddities in the Bible and the unseen realm.

This book contains the biblical and historical research behind Godawa’s novels Judah Maccabee: Parts 1&2, of the series Chronicles of the Watchers.

But don’t worry, you don’t have to read the Judah Maccabee novels to get the tremendous biblical value out of this book.

Fascinating Biblical things you will learn:

• What is the Septuagint and why is it important?
• What are the books of the Apocrypha and should they be in the Bible?
• What are the Books of Maccabees about?
• What is the origin of the Jewish festival Hanukkah and why isn’t it in the Bible?
• Why was God silent during the Intertestamental period?
• Was God absent from the temple during this time?
• How was Hellenism so significant an influence on Judaism and Christianity?
• Are the female warrior Amazons of Greek myth real?
• How does the story of the Maccabees fulfill prophecies of Daniel?
• The shocking truth of how Greek myth borrowed from Jewish/Semitic religion.
• How the Greek pantheon fits into the biblical concept of gods of the nations.
• What is the Abomination of Desolation in the book of Daniel?
• How is the Abomination of Desolation quoted by Jesus Christ different?
• And much more!

Customer Reviews

“A One-Man Army of God on the March”

“Now I have discovered this previously unknown to me side of this man, I could rightly call him the “Elon Musk of Bible-based fiction,” on a par with the great authors C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and G. K. Chesterton, as well as Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, not so much for the huge body of works he has produced, but the intelligence and craft with which all his works shine.”

A. Anders

“Great foundational book for the fiction books”

“This book rocks - had never had a grasp of the importance of the Maccabees to the biblical narrative- this book does an awesome job laying the foundation and groundwork for the historical novels”

B_Spain

“Great author, scholar, and researcher!”

“Brian Godawa is a great writer, researcher, and theologian. I have read all of his books and he does a masterful job at telling the Bible stories with well researched insight . I would recommend him to anyone who is serious about Biblical truth!”

David Salley

“Brian does an excellent job of contextually interpreting the book of Daniel, the timing of Christ, and how it all played into the end of the old covenant and the beginning of the new covenant. He has done much research in Jewish culture and life during the times that these books were written. An excellent read!”

Nevco

“A SourceBook For Epic Novels Done Right”

“This was overall a helpful and fun companion book to its two novels in its own mini-series, which I would recommend to anyone who is going to (or already has) read Brian Godawa's epic two-book narrative retelling of the Maccabean Revolt.”

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