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Apocalyptic Literature and the Study of Early Jewish Mysticism [PDF]
This chapter examines apocalyptic literature within the framework of “early Jewish mysticism” and compares early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic writings with rabbinic and Hekhalot materials.
Patrick McCullough, Ra\'anan Boustan
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The Subversion of the Apocalypses in the Book of Jubilees [PDF]
In spite of some scholars’ inclination to include the book of Jubilees as another witness to “Enochic Judaism,” the relationship of Jubilees to the apocalyptic writings and events surrounding the Maccabean revolt has never been adequately clarified. This
Todd Hanneken
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Postmodern teleological agents of end in Don DeLilLos White Noise [PDF]
Apocalyptic literature in its secular form is a rich way of depicting a more meaningful fiction about ateleological end. The aim of postmodern apocalyptic literature is to manifest how the need for structure inspiresthe writers of this genre to use it as
Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur +1 more
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Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation [PDF]
Excerpt from Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies, edited by Nina Morgan, Alfred Hornung, and Takayuki ...
Hsu, Hsuan L., Yazell, Bryan
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Entangled Stories: The Red Jews in Premodern Yiddish and German Apocalyptic Lore [PDF]
“Far, far away from our areas, somewhere beyond the Mountains of Darkness, on the other side of the Sambatyon River…there lives a nation known as the Red Jews.” The Red Jews are best known from classic Yiddish writing, most notably from Mendele's Kitser ...
Abramovitsh +187 more
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This essay re-examines the difficult questions concerning the origins of apocalyptic literature and the rise of Jewish sectarianism. Since the publication of O. Plöger’s Theokratie und Eschatologie and P.
Doak, Brian R.
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Colonial Trauma in Márquez and Rushdie’s Magical Realism [PDF]
Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children are hallmarks of the genre of magical realism. A typically problematic genre in terms of classification, this article looks at magical realism from a Freudian
Miller, Rachel
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Futurenatural? A future of science through the lens of wisdom [PDF]
This is a PDF version of an article published in Heythrop Journal© 1999. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com.This article discusses genetic engineering and Christian theories of wisdom, particularly in relation in creation ...
Deane-Drummond, Celia
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Andrew Melville, sacred chronology and world history: the Carmina Danielis 9 and the Antichristus [PDF]
The accepted view of the ecclesiastical reformer Andrew Melville (1545–1622) as the dynamic leader of the Presbyterian movement in Jacobean Scotland has been severely eroded in recent years, with particular criticism of the actual importance of his ...
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Divine Disclosure: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic [PDF]
Reviewed Book: Russell, D S. (David Syme). Divine Disclosure: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic.
Reimer, David J.
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