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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2009
In his lecture on ‘Eschatology in the New Testament’, delivered to the Society for the Study of Theology, at its inaugural meeting in Cambridge, in July 1952, the late Professor William Manson put forward an ingenious theory. He claimed that there is a specific Old Testament eschatology, which arose in the life of Israel from a primarily religious interest which viewed all human affairs in the light of an ‘ultimate transcendent Event, an End, towards which under the judgment and mercy of God, the world is hastening’. This conception which links history with eschatology, can be traced as far back as the events which gave rise to the traditions, embodied in the Yahwist narrative, about the revelations given to Moses.
page 178 note 1 The text of his lecture is published in the Scottish Journal of Theology Occasional Papers, No. 2, pp. 1–6, of which pp. 1–4 concern the OT.
page 178 note 2 Actually this view is probably a reading back of the NT standpoint into the OT. CfBultmann's, R. Gifford lectures published as History and Eschatology, 1957, Edinburgh U.P., pp. 23–29Google Scholar; also S. Smith's trenchant criticisms of eschatological claims for Isaiah in his Schweich lectures, 1940, Isaiah xl-lv pp. 18f, 63f 103–5; also Lindblom, J., The Servant Songs in Deutero-Isaiah, 1951, pp. 94–102, 104.Google Scholar
page 181 note 1 Die hebräischen Synonyma der Zeit und Ewigkeit genetisch und sprachvergleichend dargeslellt (1871). See Index for 
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