Have you ever wondered why big concepts like Resurrection, the Afterlife, Heaven&Hell, the soul, and Messiah don't really appear in the Old Testament. So how do they just pop up on the New Testament? They don't. And when you open the Gospels and read about rabbis and synagogues and even demons, did you just assume they were “somewhere” in the Old Testament? They’re not. They were fully developed throughout the "Second Temple" period (500BC to 60AD). Plus many of our difficult OT passages (and may NT passages too) are explained rather well in the literature from the Second Temple period. This is a very helpful and enriching class for both NT and OT understanding. Please join our Survey of the Value of Second Temple Literature (including the OT Apocrypha) for Christians today.