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Definition:
The intertestamental period is the period of time between 400 BCE and the 1st century CE. The former date is
the traditional one after which no more writings were added to the Jewish Bible.
The latter time was when the writings which would become the Christian scriptures
began to be created.
Some of the most important literature of this time period has been divided up into the Apocrypha and the Pseudoepigraphia, both of which provide a wealth of information into the cultural and religious background on which Christianity was based.
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