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| | Apocalyptic literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Apocalyptic thus forms the indispensable preparation for the religion of the New Testament. | | | Apocalyptic exhortations are aimed at chastening and reforming their hearers with threats of punishment and rewards in the coming "end times." A brief apocalyptic vision is found in Gospel of Mark 13 is sometimes called the "Little Apocalypse" and parallel passages can be found in Matthew 24 and Luke 21. | | | But Christianity was no less assuredly the heir of ancient prophecy, and thus as spiritual representative of what was true in prophecy and apocalyptic; its essential teaching was as that of its Founder that both worlds were of God and that both should be made God's. |
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| | The modern Christian movements are concentrated in the 18th and 19th Centuries and include the rise of Apocalyptic sects such as the Christadelphians and Jehovah's Witnesses of note. | | | Apocalyptic beliefs predate Christianity, appear in other religions, and have merged into contemporary secular society, especially through popular culture (see Apocalypticism). | | | This ellipsis in common usage echoes the ellipsis in the title of the last book of the Bible, Book of Revelation, which is commonly interpreted as prophesying the end of the world in graphic detail. |
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| | Apocalyptic Literature - Resources and Helps for Dr. Shirley's courses |
| | Such literature was particularly popular at times of persecution, as a means of stressing that although evil seemed to be in the ascendancy in the world, there was actually another dimension, in the heavens, in which spiritual warfare was taking place, and which would eventually lead to victory and the vindication of the faithful minority. | | | The main feature of apocalyptic literature is the revelation of secret visions and prophecies to the religious community, often citing angels as agents of the revelation, with a focus on eschatology (the End of Time) and the great Day of Judgement. | | | Most apocalyptic literature is outside the Canon of Scripture, and was often written pseudonymously (the writer claiming to be some hero or patriarch of the Old Testament) and addressed to a select group or religious community (eg "the Apocalypse of Abraham, 1 and 2 Enoch, 2 and 3 Baruch) |
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| | Keith Hunt - Bible Basics #9 |
| | Because Old Testament prophetic inspiration had ceased, the apocalyptic writer sought to continue in the tradition and teaching of a prophet or respected person by writing in his name. | | | The apocalyptic writers draw much of their symbolic vocabulary from the Old Testament prophets and ancient Near Eastern mythology. | | | In Jewish and Christian literature, including the New Testament, the term Son of Man most often refers to the Messiah, who comes to execute judgment on humanity. |
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| | frontline: apocalypse!: primary sources: apocalyptic literature |
| | Apocalyptic thinking was extremely influential in Jewish tradition between the second century BCE and third century CE; however, the disastrous failure of the lltwo revolts against Rome (in 70 and 135 CE, respectively) caused the radical political dimension of apocalyptic tradition to undergo some key changes. | | | The full flowering of apocalyptic, however, required other elements, and chief among these were influences from first the Persian culture and then the Greek, in the period from the fifth to the third centuries BCE. | | | Apocalyptic thinking has been called "the child of prophecy in a new idiom." This idea aptly reflects both its origins out of the older prophetic tradition and its new elements. |
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| | The Book of Revelation as Jewish apocalyptic literature |
| | The first great flowering of apocalyptic literature was in the mid-2nd-century B.C. crisis of Jewish faith under Antiochus Epiphanes when the apocalyptic was the literary vehicle of the Hasidic movement, which stood for national repentance, uncompromising opposition to hellenisation and eschatological faith in God's imminent intervention on behalf of His people (Bauckham, 1980, p. | | | The apocalyptic work then sought to communicate a disclosure of a transcendent perspective on this world - usually this was achieved by a seer being taken in vision to God's throne room in heaven to learn the secrets of the divine purpose. | | | The apocalyptic writings are described as intended for "the wise among the people", embodying the ardent aspirations and the inmost hopes of those who longed for the "consolation of Israel", as they understood it (Edersheim, 1993, p. |
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| | The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. I: Aachen - Basilians ... |
| | The apocalyptic seer lived in a time when all felt that the prophetic spirit had departed, when important decisions awaited the coming of a prophet (I Macc. | | | Apocalyptic arithmetic took the place of prophecy; thus in the center of Daniel’s prophecies (Dan. | | | In their entire purity and complete ethical power these thoughts come out only in the gospel; but the two thoughts, that in this age God is an absentee and that at its end he will destroy his world-adversaries in the great judgment, rule the Jewish idea of God. |
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| | JewishEncyclopedia.com - APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE, NEO-HEBRAIC: |
| | In the course of its development the Christian apocalyptic drew freely from later Jewish sources, which, on the other hand, were often influenced directly or indirectly by the apocalyptic of the Church. | | | Similarly the Christian apocalyptic grants future bliss only to the faithful adherents of the Church. | | | It shows the same particularism and narrow nationalism that predominate in the later, according to which the kingdom of God means salvation for faithful Israel alone, but for the unrepentant heathen world damnation. |
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| | Apocalyptic Literature, 3 (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools |
| | Apocalyptic thus presents a stage in the doctrine of Scripture. | | | The reverence for the letter of Scripture, so markedly characteristic of the rabbinic teachings found in the Talmud, is not found in the apocalyptic writings. | | | The Testament that follows, that of Naphtali, has apocalyptic elements in it. |
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| | Consider the nature of the threat this apocalyptic group posed to the "orthodox" church. | | | Your task in this paper is to explore the background of the spirituals and the apocalyptic roots of, reasons for, and characteristics of their ethic. | | | His Compendium of Revelations (McGinn, Apocalyptic Spirituality, 192-275, on reserve), published in 1495, led to his excommunication, torture and execution three years later. |
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http://www-relg-studies.scu.edu/facstaff/murphy/courses/sctr032/research.htm
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| | B461 -- Apocalyptic Literature: Introduction |
| | Thus, in an attempt to rescue God from the scourge of doubt, such promises were pressed from the present into the future, rescuing the prophet and God from the accusation of falsehood. | | | Both of these approaches to the study of apocalyptic (from prophetic roots and from wisdom roots) attempt to draw a line of continuity from Israel's past to its present life in crisis. | | | von Rad supposed that the writers of the apocalyptic materials were disciples of the wisdom school who were disenchanted with wisdom's failure to help out in the period of crisis brought about by Antiochus Epiphanes. |
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| | On David Ketterer's New Worlds for Old |
| | Professor Canary speaks of the "irrelevant religious associations of 'apocalyptic.'" On the contrary, I argue in the book for the value of the religious associations. | | | Unfortunately there is so little congruence between her version of what I am trying to say and what I believed myself to be saying that I became suspicious as to how much of my book she had actually read. | | | Similarly, the literal form of "defamiliarization" provided by apocalyptic literature is a thing apart. |
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| | Catalyst: Contemporary Evangelical Perspectives |
| | The apocalyptic vision of God’s triumph over spiritual evil here and throughout the cosmos is not simply a last-ditch theology for hard times. | | | In the “little apocalypses&; in the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus renders an apocalyptic vision of the coming (parousia) of the Son of Man in clouds of glory to judge the world at the Last Day. | | | Still, the popularity of these books may be judgment upon a church that has abandoned its people to apocalyptic kitsch. |
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| | Since the most revolutionary idea present in fundamentalist Islam is that modem Muslims are reenacting the situation of the Prophet Muhammad, during the seventh century, and that all of the rest of the world, including the so called Muslim countries, are infidel. | | | It is irrelevant to say, as some do, that the apocalyptic nature of Islam has been dormant for hundreds of years. | | | Both movements used apocalyptic material to communicate the urgency of their reforming message. |
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| | APOCALYPTIC DEFINED |
| | It is literature born out of crisis and was a means of addressing that crisis to a religious community. | | | He does not believe there is evidence to state that Jews of the Second Temple period had to choose between apocalypticism and worship in the temple. | | | In other words, Judaism, in the midst of political and social upheaval sought for an avenue (first observation) to express their questions and perplexities (second observation) that such calamity presented to their theology (third observation). |
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| | Definition of Apocalyptic: Apocalyptic literature is writing concerned with "the phenomenon of the disclosure of heavenly secrets in visionary form to a seer for the benefit of a religious community experiencing suffering or perceiving itself victimized by some form of deprivation" (Anchor Bible Dictionary I:280). | | | Disclosure in visionary form, to a seer The visionary quality of some apocalyptic literature is more clearly seen in Revelation than in the gospels. In Revelation, John speaks of having a vision which Jesus interprets for him and which he writes down (see Rev. 1:9-20). | | | There are also two scenes involving the resurrection of the dead (27:52 and 28:6ff.). In Jewish and Christian apocalyptic writing resurrection is a sign that the new age has dawned and that the old age is passing away. |
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| | In this interplay between the incorporeal purity of the ends and the violent corporeality of the means the apocalyptic body is born. | | | It is a body whose mortal sickness is a precondition of ultimate health, whose grotesque and excessive sexuality issues in angelic sexlessness, and whose torture underpins a painless--and lifeless--millennium. | | | And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways and pour out the vials of the wrath of Cod upon the earth. |
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| | Muslim apocalyptic traditions are given a strict literary form, and are mostly ascribed to the Prophet Muhammad or to several close companions of his. | | | Another writer says: "It would be a humiliation for both Christianity and Judaism if the Messiah [he means Jesus] came in the year 2000 and the Mosque of al-Aqsa was built on the site of the Temple on Mt. Moriah. | | | 1103/1691), are known to have taken the traditions and built (or attempted to build) an apocalyptic story out of them, trying to prove that they were being fulfilled during their own times. |
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| | Novum Testamentum: The Underworld in Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature |
| | With this in mind, there are many places where it is necessary for apocalyptic authors to discuss the realm of the dead. | | | And the faces of the wicked souls were as black as the bottom of a pot, because of the multitude of their wicked deeds. | | | Of course, there is conflict between these two entities because fire usually cancels out the darkness, but this is the glory of apocalyptic literature and why it should not be interpreted literally. |
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| | Apocalyptic Literature Introduction (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools |
| | Both in matter and form apocalyptic literal and the writings associated with it differ from the prophetic writings of the preceding periods. | | | They all claim to be revelations of the future--a future which begins, however, from the days of some ancient saint--and then, passing over the time of is actual composition, ends with the coming of the Messiah, the setting up of the Messianic kingdom and the end of the world. | | | At the same time, however, from internal evidence, we may form some idea of the surroundings of those who have written these works. |
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| | 3. Apocalyptic Literature |
| | The first three Gospels of the New Testament each contain an apocalyptic chapter (Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 24). | | | Specifically, an apocalypse is a revelation of future events initiated by God and delivered through a mediator (typically an angel) to a holy person. | | | Eschatology (from eschaton, the Greek word for "end") refers to the complex of religious beliefs that have to do with the end times. |
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| | Apocalypse of Sedrach |
| | And Margaret Barker has argued that apocalyptic comes from the royal cult of the Davidic dynasty (celebrated in the Jerusalem temple) after these royal traditions lost their original Sitz im Leben when the temple was destroyed. | | | It is also important to note that the genre apocalypse is frequently found elsewhere in the the Greco-Roman world and the ancient Near East during the Persian and Hellenistic periods. | | | Gerhard von Rad discusses the origins of apocalyptic in _Old Testament Theology_ vol. |
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| | Apocalypse Bibliographies |
| | Bauckham, F. "The Worship of Jesus in Apocalyptic Christianity." New Testament Studies 27 (1981): 322-41. | | | Collins, John J. "Cosmos and Salvation: Jewish Wisdom and Apocalyptic in the Hellenistic Age." History of Religions 17/2 (1977): 121-42. | | | Nickelsburg, George W. Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah. |
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| | Amazon.com: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments (The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 1) (Anchor Bible): Books: ... |
| | Matters of whether these "rebel" and "outcast" books appeared to be divinely inspired by the various communities that embraced them is a matter of conjecture, though there are strong hints here and there from the various communities of seekers that preserved these texts around the Mediterranean world. | | | Even more is to be had in the many non-canonical Testaments presented here, many with apocalyptic passages. | | | This is as unbiased a compilation as I have seen in many years. |
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| | We explore the flexibility of apocalyptic discourse, which served a broad variety of functions in early Jewish and Christian argumentation. | | | A series of three consultations on the practice of teaching the New Testament, to be hosted by Winthrop University throughout the 1998-99 academic year. | | | Project Director, Charlotte-Area Regional Consultation on Teaching the New Testament, sponsored by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. |
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| | Wilson, R. "From Prophecy to Apocalyptic: Reflections on the Shape of Israelite Religion." Semeia 21: 79-95. | | | Hanson, P. The Dawn of Apocalyptic.The Historical and Sociological Roots of Jewish Apocalyptic Eschatology. | | | Looks at times in history when the world literally came to an end for large numbers of people. |
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http://www.hope.edu/academic/religion/bandstra/RTOT/PART3/PT3_BG.HTM
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| | David B. Cook, Annual Report To The Provost, Rice University |
| | David Cook "Muslim apocalyptic and jihad." Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 20 (1996): 66-104. | | | David Cook "?Hadith, Authority and the End of the World: Traditions in Modern Muslim Apocalyptic Literature." Oriente Moderno, 21 (n.s.) (2001): 1-22. | | | "The Apocalyptic Year 200/815-16." First Annual Center for Millennial Studies Conference, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. |
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| | These apocalyptic beliefs and the possible scenarios imagined by those who saw this possible future were once again reflected in the literature of the time period. | | | Speculative fiction has come to be seen as the "secular apocalyptic literature." Frederick Kreuziger writes that [science] fiction and apocalypse are mutually illuminating. | | | This is where the resurgence of interest in apocalyptic literature came from. |
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| | frontline: apocalypse! PBS |
| | From the team that created "From Jesus to Christ," this two-hour FRONTLINE special journeys back more than 2500 years to unravel the origins of the Book of Revelation and how its apocalyptic expectations have shaped our history and our world. |
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| | Bible Dictionary: Apocalyptic |
| | The definition of what characteristics exactly make writing "apocalyptic" is much debated, however "Revelation" is a fairly clear example in the Bible and Daniel is often cited too (as well as chapters from other books of both Hebrew and Greek Bibles). | | | This page is part of the Hypertext Bible Commentary - Amos, if you have reached it as a standalone page, to view it in context, go to www.bible.gen.nz | | | This literature has a tendency towards dualism (placing another enemy power - the devil - alongside God) this is seen particularly in examples from Jewish and Christian tradition outside the biblical canon. |
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| | Religious cults and sects, doctrines and practices - Apocalyptic Literature |
| | A type of Jewish and Christian religious writing that developed during the period between the writing of the Old and New Testaments. | | | Religious cults and sects, doctrines and practices - Apocalyptic Literature | | | ''The evolution of apocalyptic belief and how it shaped the Western World'' Companion site to the Nov. 22, 1999, PBS frontline broadcast |
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| | Daniel and Zechariah: Hebrew Prophets |
| | The apocalypticist's answer is that God's promises are not to be fulfilled in the historic realm but in another realm. | | | In letters to Neo-Assyrian kings, Mesopotamian scholars who have lost their influence at court describe their career according to a literary model. | | | Martin Buber's dichotomization of prophetic and apocalyptic literature |
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| | Apocalyptic Literature, 1 - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia |
| | The Mishna has few traces of Messianic belief, and was not committed to writing till the end of the 2nd century, when the difference between church and synagogue was accentuated. | | | Apocalyptic Literature, 1 - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia | | | There is a fragment published by Ceriani entitled "History and Life (diegesis kai politeia) of Adam, Which, Was Revealed by God to Moses, His Servant." It is an account of the life of our first parents after the death of Abel to their own death. |
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| | Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature :: David Cook :: Syracuse University Press Syracuse New York |
| | One of his most striking discoveries is the influence of non-Islamic sources on contemporary Muslim apocalyptic beliefs. | | | He trenchantly discusses the influence of non-Islamic sources on contemporary Muslim apocalyptic writing, tracing anti-Semitic strains in Islamist thought in part to Western texts and traditions. | | | Although apocalyptic visions and predictions have long been part of classical and contemporary Islam, this book is the first scholarly work to cover this disparate but influential body of writing. |
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| | Review of S. L. Cook, The Apocryphal Literature |
| | He traces the rise of apocalypticism out of the prophetic collection in the MT, and warns against interpretations that attempt to "domesticate" apocalyptic literature. | | | Journal of Hebrew Scriptures - Volume 4 (2002-2003) - Review | | | Specifically he objects to interpretive stances that he thinks "spiritualize" apocalyptic literature by refusing to take seriously its cosmic overtones and that treat them as merely metaphors. |
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| | Apocalyptic Literature |
| | The apocalyptic idea passed into the life and belief of the church. | | | The literature in question was not confined to the Jews. | | | Many apocalyptic writings, both Jewish and Christian, are mentioned in ancient works of which nothing is now known. |
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| | Catholic Resources - Prof. Felix Just, S.J. |
| | The Johannine Literature Web: - a wide variety of original materials and links to help support research and teaching of the Fourth Gospel and the Letters of John. | | | Biblical and Religious Art and Music - several collections of online art works and music groups related to the Bible (some on my website, and some links to other sites); featuring copyright-free biblical woodcuts by Gustave Doré (1832-1883), Christian Symbols by Rudolf Koch (1876-1934), and Illustrations of Gospel Stories by Jerome Nadal, SJ (1593). |
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| | BS 1700 Nickelsburg, George W. Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah: | | | The Open Heaven: A Study of Apocalyptic in Judaism and Early | | | BS 1700 Charlesworth, James H. The Pseudepigrapha and Modern Research, with a Supplement. |
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| | Theology Today - Vol 37, No. 2 - July 1980 - BOOK REVIEW - New Apocalyptic: Ancient and Modern |
| | Or the hope of ancient Israel can be treated without sufficient distinction between what Israel's prophets hoped for (and found realized already to some considerable extent in the act of faith) and what the apocalyptists hoped for. | | | But the book does not adequately distinguish between a prophetic eschatology, which finds the consummation of God's work as the culmination and crown of historical existence, and an apocalyptic eschatology, which sees a vast chasm between this age and the age to come. | | | Well known for his works on apocalyptic literature and thought, here the author attempts to show the contemporary importance of Jewish apocalyptic, especially for Christians who may well believe that the |
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| | The reading of the book, Apocalyptic by L. Morris; or Apocalyptic: Ancient and Modern by D. Russell. | | | The course studies the distinctives of apocalypse as found in the New Testament, its antecedents in the Old Testament and in the intertestamental literature, and the exegesis of the Greek text of the Revelation. | | | Begin translating the Greek Text of the Revelation |
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http://www.westernseminary.edu/Syllabi/PDX/Spring_Summer_2004/PDX_sp_su04/nts536_su04.htm
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| | Doesn’t the Bible itself clearly predict that the apocalyptic end of the world is very near? | | | This book is often considered to be the most confusing and mysterious of all the NT books and has received a wide range of interpretations. | | | Students will examine the historical and cultural situation of apocalyptic literature to which this book belongs, as well as the major theological emphases found in both Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature. |
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| | Persons who can read the Hebrew Bible and/or the Greek New Testament will be expected to do so. | | | To introduce the student to the origin of the apocalyptic genre and its relation to prophetic literature. | | | The student will be expected to demonstrate his/her ability to interpret apocalyptic literature in regard to its Sitz-im-Leben including historical and sociological aspects. |
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| | Ultimate Things: An Introduction to Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature |
| | His introduction should become one of the first places instructors direct students interested in both scriptural and extra-canonical apocalyptic writings." | | | By focusing on 'apocalyptic discourse' he is able to include a range of texts that are relevant to the discussion although they are not strictly apocalypses, and he includes some post-New Testament Christian apocalypses as well as the standard Jewish ones. | | | Such key topics as the Dead Sea Scrolls, the thought of Jesus and Paul, and the Shepherd of Hermas are all included. |
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| | Subjects: Bible, Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, Prophetic Literature, Book of the Twelve, Apocalyptic Literature, Daniel, New Testament, Revelation, Early Christian Literature, Literature, Methods, Historical Approaches, History, History of Judaism, Greco-Roman Period, Early Church Origins, Form, Tradition and Redaction Criticism, Ezekiel, Zechariah, Dead Sea Scrolls | | | Citation: Eibert Tigchelaar, review of Stephen L. Cook, The Apocalyptic Literature, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2004). | | | Buy this book from one of the vendors below -- SBL benefits from your purchase! |
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| | Literature which essentially falls under the above definition, is included in the following tables as 'apocalyptic'. | | | Click on the underlined titles to go to the texts, or their commentaries. | | | 'Apocalyptic, the adjectival form, refers to a visionary, "biblical style" of writing about eschatological matters or to "influences from apocalypticism or from one or more apocalypses".' |
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| | Relevant to the Book of Daniel in its handling and explanation of the genre of apocalyptic literature, this commentary is superb. | | | While focused on the book of Revelation, this book is instructive for Daniel as well. | | | Written by a teacher for his students, this book is a great introduction which supplies actual examples of the different kinds of apocalyptic literature as it walks you through each style. |
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| | Hence all Christian literature (of the 1st century or so) is sectarian. | | | It is possible that the earliest Gnostic apocalypses were not Christian: Apocalypse of Adam, Allogenes (date?), and that Christian Gnostic apocalypses came after the use of the apocalyptic genre in non-gnostic Christian circles. | | | > a) the majority of apocalyptic literature originated/arose after Rev > b) the majority of apocalyptic literature originate/arise before Rev The majority of all Christian literature arose after Rev, so (a). |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/archives/greek-3/msg01100.html
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