intertestamental

[ in-ter-tes-tuh-men-tl ]

adjective

1. of or relating to the period between the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament.

Word History and Origins

Origin of intertestamental¹

First recorded in 1925–30; inter- + testament + -al ¹

Example Sentences

The author of the “Histoire du Peuple d’Israël” and the “Origines du Christianisme” calls attention to the first emergence in the “intertestamental” apocrypha of certain characteristic Christian themes, and M. Dupont-Sommer refers to this.

From The New Yorker

Anyone who goes to the Gospels from the literature of the intertestamental apocrypha and that of the Dead Sea sect must feel at once the special genius of Jesus and be struck by the impossibility of falling in with one of the worst tendencies of insensitive modern scholarship and accounting for everything in the Gospels in terms of analogies and precedents.

From The New Yorker

I have mentioned the apocryphal documents of the “intertestamental” period, which were known in translations before the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls.

From The New Yorker