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Revealed wisdom : studies in Apocalyptic in honour of Christopher Rowland /

Revealed wisdom : studies in Apocalyptic in honour of Christopher Rowland / edited by John F. Ashton. - 1 online resource (pages) - Ancient Judaism and early Christianity = Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, v. 88 1871-6636 ; . - Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 88. Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity Online, ISBN: 9789004365223. .

Includes index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / 1 The Opening of Heaven in the Book of Job / 2 Ethics in Apocalyptic / 3 Towards a Taxonomy of Jewish Messianisms / 4 Psalm 90 and Isaiah 65 in Jubilees 23 / 5 The Temple Library in Apocalyptic Legend / 6 Primordial Lights: The Logos and Adoil in the Johannine Prologue and 2 Enoch / 7 The Date of 2 Baruch / 8 Seeing and Understanding in 4 Ezra / 9 The Transformation of Paul’s Apocalyptic Ideas in the First Two Centuries / 10 Paul and Universalism / 11 The Reader of Mark 13:14b as the (Re-)Interpreter of Apocalyptic / 12 Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility in the Fourth Gospel / 13 Jewish Apocalyptic Lore in Early Islam / 14 The Concordist Imagination: A Theme in the History of Eschatology / 15 Hope Against Hope: A Reading of Joachim of Fiore / 16 Francis of Assisi as Apocalyptic Visionary / 17 “The Young Daniel”: A Little Known Syriac Apocalyptic Text. Introduction and Translation / 18 The Place of the Book of Revelation in a New Testament Theology / 19 Pseudonymity and the Revelation of John / 20 From Seer to Saint: Psychotherapeutic Change in the Book of Revelation / 21 Chaos and New Creation / Index of Names and Subjects. John Ashton -- C.R.A. Morray-Jones -- John Barton -- Philip Alexander -- James C. VanderKam -- William Horbury -- Andrei A. Orlov -- Martin Goodman -- Michael E. Stone -- Adela Yarbro Collins -- Christopher Tuckett -- John Muddiman -- Harold W. Attridge -- John C. Reeves -- Bernard McGinn -- Peter Cramer -- Ian Boxall -- Sebastian Brock -- Robert Morgan -- Lorenzo DiTommaso -- Dan Merkur -- Andrew Chester --

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A collection of twenty-one essays clustered around the theme of apocalyptic—revelations of hitherto undisclosed divine mysteries to human seers, either directly or through the mediation of an interpreting angel. Preliminary essays on the Book of Job, Messianism, and apocalyptic ethics are followed by five studies centred upon Jewish apocalypses composed around the turn of the era, two anonymous, three pseudonymous, and four essays on New Testament writers, two on Paul, one on Mark, and one on John. A reflection upon an early Islamic convert from Judaism, emphasizing the ‘Abrahamic-lexicon’ common to all three religions of the book, is succeeded by essays on two medieval Christian visionaries, Joachim of Fiore and Francis of Assisi. After a further essay on a little known Syriac apocalyptic text the volume concludes with studies of four different aspects of the Book of Revelation itself.

9789004272040

10.1163/9789004272040 DOI

2014005545


Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Apocalyptic literature.

BS646 / .R48 2014

220/.046