This book contains the three Schweich Lectures from 1913. Burkitt believes the fundamental idea that underlines the great series of Jewish Apocalypses to be the idea of the “imminent judgment to come." He attempts to exhibit this idea in connection with the historical setting and the ultimate cause of its manifestation. Burkitt holds that what gives rise to the Apocalypses' vitality is the great struggle between religion and civilization.

Author - F. Crawford Burkitt

The Book of Rules of Tyconius by F. Crawford Burkitt
The Earliest Sources for the Life of Jesus by F. Crawford Burkitt
Criticism of the New Testament by William Sanday, Frederick Kenyon, F. Crawford Burkitt, A. C. Headlam, J. H. Bernhard
The Gospel History and Its Transmission by F. Crawford Burkitt
S. Ephraim's Quotations from the Gospel
The Old Latin and the Itala by F. Crawford Burkitt
Church and Gnosis by F. Crawford Burkitt
Early Eastern Christianity by F. Crawford Burkitt
The Four Gospels in Syriac
Christian Beginnings by F. Crawford Burkitt