Were there prophets during the 400 years between Malachi and Matthew? are these 400 years in the Torah?

Answer 1

According one of my professors, Rabbi Grollman, there were no prophets after the time of the invasion of the Greeks. At that time all divine inspiration ceased when the temple was destroyed and desecrated. Several so called Apocraphal books were written durring this time, including the books of the Maccabees and The Wisdom of Sirach. According to my christian theology professors, it was not until the time of Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus Christ, that Divine inspiration resumed according to the words of the Prophets of Old. In the second century A.D., at the council of Jamnia, also called the school of Johannan Ben Zachi, the Rabbis closed the Hebrew canon of scripture to separate it from the emerging Christian writings. The Hebrew scriptures that Christians call the Old Testament are called the Tenach. Loosely translated that term means the law, the prophets, and the writings. Even the Jews and many Christians do not question the historocity of many of the apocrphal books. At the counsil of Trent, the Catholic Church proclaimed the canonicity of certain Apocryphal books. They are still in the Catholic Bible. Many protestant denominations accept them as devotional writings, but not on the same level as the rest of scripture. Some Protestant groups do not accept any of the Apocryphal writings. As to the rest of your question, the Torah means The Law, the writings of Moses. It is also called the Penteteuch. (The first five books of the Bible.) Those writings cover all history from creation through the Hellinistic era.

Answer 2

NO
You must know something about the bible time line. I will make it simple.
The age a son had a son [ or an event ], sums the time then at hand.
Adam age-130-105-90-70-65-
162-65-187-182 = 1065 Noah born.
Noah age 950 Gen.9:28,29[ at 350 after the flood]; = dies 2006 after Adam.
Gen.11:10 [1558 + 525 = 2083, covenant for land to age 75 Abraham Gen.12:4];
Shem 98 + [ 2 -35-30-34-30-
32-30-29-[205 -] 130 = age 75 Abraham, There are scriptures for all this].
age 525 Shem + 75 = 600, Shem dies, Gen.11:10,11;
[ Abraham is age 150 ] 25 years before Abaham will die. Gen.25:7;

So 2083 Covenant to Exo.12:40,41; 430 years =
to 2553 Deut.1:3; 29:5; 34:7; 40 years to covenant heirs in the Promised Land, year 2553 + then Solomon.
Solomon 1Ki.6:1; 480 = 3033 + 36 [ of 40 ] 1Ki.11:42; dies and 3069 years had passed after Adam. 997 before Christ.

3069 + 391 [ or 390 years and five months ], 3460 after Adam and 606 before Christ. 2Chr.36:20-23; Jer.25:12; Dan.9:2; 10:1;
Years of 606 less 70 years = 536 years before Christ, and most history materials says Cyrus was 536 before Christ.
At this time Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggi and Zachariah were the Prophets, and most give 443 before Christ as the end of the prophets with Malachi.
Daniel tells the first and second coming of Jesus, but bible math is different from any we use. Week are years and days are years, it is just simply a math problem and it is accurate. With bible as a discussion, I do all I can to get it near to right, for God and Christ first, and me as I want to know, then for any one else wanting to know.

SO THERE WERE NO PROPHETS IN THAT TIME PERIOD.

I do the history on Nations to Empires, but history has it more vague.
Egypt and Moses was number one. Assyria and Isaiah was number two.
Babylon and Daniel was number three.
Cyrus that Isaiah foretold was in number 4.
Greece was in the period where prophets are missing, but foretold by Daniel, also Matt.1:1-17; are the people that came through that time, then 62 years before Jesus, Rome number six took over Judah where the temple was.
Jesus faced Satan when he was age 30 Matt.4:1-11; Like 3:23; Jesus crucified and ascended year 33. Then the New Testament books were written, the last by John on Patmos and still in Rome number six.
Rev.17:1-14 tell of the world that Satan is in and that five kingdoms had fallen when he was in number six about the year 100, it is amazing that the KJV Bible comes to us in number seven and at age 303 in 1914 is an excepted translation, to late for us to complain.
That is the end of number seven and we go into the eight of Rev.17:1-14 and Jesus second coming is in the eighth, so if we are not careful we will miss the prophecy as Matt.24:3.7.14.15.22.36-38 [ Only God knows the day and the hour that satan is put in the pit and Jesus takes over in Rev.20:1-6];

Answer 3

For Becki & The Ant:
Written Torah
To Jews, there is no "Old Testament." The books that Christians call the New Testament are not part of Jewish scripture. The so-called Old Testament is known to us as Written Torah or the Tanakh.

This is a list of the books of Written Torah, in the order in which they appear in Jewish translations, with the Hebrew name of the book, a translation of the Hebrew name (where it is not the same as the English name), and English names of the books (where it is not the same as the Hebrew name). The Hebrew names of the first five books are derived from the first few words of the book. The text of each book is more or less the same in Jewish translations as what you see in Christian bibles, although there are some occasional, slight differences in the numbering of verses and there are a few significant differences in the translations.

TORAH (The Law):

Bereishith (In the beginning...) (Genesis)
Shemoth (The names...) (Exodus)
Vayiqra (And He called...) (Leviticus)
Bamidbar (In the wilderness...) (Numbers)
Devarim (The words...) (Deuteronomy)

NEVI'IM (The Prophets):
Yehoshua (Joshua)
Shoftim (Judges)
Shmuel (I &II Samuel)
Melakhim (I & II Kings)
Yeshayah (Isaiah)
Yirmyah (Jeremiah)
Yechezqel (Ezekiel)
The Twelve (treated as one book)
Hoshea (Hosea)
Yoel (Joel)
Amos
Ovadyah (Obadiah)
Yonah (Jonah)
Mikhah (Micah)
Nachum
Chavaqquq (Habbakkuk)
Tzefanyah (Zephaniah)
Chaggai
Zekharyah (Zechariah)
Malakhi

KETHUVIM (The Writings):
Tehillim (Psalms)
Mishlei (Proverbs)
Iyov (Job)
Shir Ha-Shirim (Song of Songs)
Ruth
Eikhah (Lamentations)
Qoheleth (the author's name) (Ecclesiastes)
Esther
Daniel
Ezra & Nechemyah (Nehemiah) (treated as one book)
Divrei Ha-Yamim (The words of the days) (Chronicles)

Written Torah is often referred to as the Tanakh, which is an acrostic of Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim.

Answer 4

The Apocrypha...

1 Maccabees

Answer 5

The Tora was made up of the first five books of the Bible....Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy ... The last was written about 1,400 years before Christ .

Answer 6

When I was in church, my preacher's wife said that it wasn't important enough to have been written down. But there are the Aprocrypha Books that have been in there, but were taken out by the Roman Catholic Church. Those were in that area as well.

Answer 7

We do not really know because this time was not written about in scripture. It is called a time of silence.