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Apocalyptic and Wisdom Literature

2021
Abstract “Apocalyptic Literature” and “Wisdom Literature” are broad designations that represent widely recognized categories of inquiry in the fields of ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and beyond. The relationship between the two has been a prominent topic of study over the last five decades.
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Apocalyptic literature

1988
Abstract The term ‘apocalypse’ denotes a particular literary type found in the literature of ancient Judaism, characterized by claims to offer visions or other disclosures of divine mysteries concerning a variety of subjects, especially those to do with the future.
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Finding Happiness in Apocalyptic Literature

2012
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What Is Apocalyptic Literature?

2014
It is possible to identify a literary genre “apocalypse” along the lines proposed in Semeia 14 (1979), as an account of a revelation mediated by a heavenly being that discloses a transcendent reality, both spatial and temporal. Apocalypticism, the worldview characteristic of apocalypses, can also be found in works that are not formally apocalypses.
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Spatiality and Apocalyptic Literature

Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel, 2016
The critical examination of space is valuable for illumining apocalyptic literature which made rich use of spatial categories, both imagined and real. Descriptions and signifiers of space and place reveal human appraisals and categorization as well as perspectives of privilege and oppression.
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Apocryphal Apocalyptic Literature

Russian Studies in Philosophy, 2000
One of the widely known peculiarities of recent studies of the cultural heritage of Rus'-Ukraine is the noticeable tendency of a number of publications to merge, identify, and sometimes even to interchange various Old Slavic cultural traditions.
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The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature

Choice Reviews Online, 2014
The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic is a thematic examination of ancient apocalyptic literature and its analogues in modern times. Apocalypticism first appears in Judaism in the Hellenistic period in the books of Daniel and Enoch. There is a distinctive genre “apocalypse” that describes the disclosure of a transcendent world, both spatial and temporal ...
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Syriac Apocalyptic Literature

2014
This chapter delineates the field, identifies the relevant apocalyptic texts by providing a list of the compositions that belong to the apocalyptic genre, regroups them, and briefly characterizes at least one, lesser known, apocalypse, in each group.
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A Reappraisal of Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

Review & Expositor, 1975
Apocalyptic literature was first so called after the best known member of the genre: the New Testament Apocalypse or “The Revelation to John” (as it is entitled in RSV). The extension of the term from the particular to the general is apt, for the Revelation to John exhibits the essential feature of all apocalypses—the “unveiling” to a human being by ...
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Hebrew and Egyptian Apocalyptic Literature

Harvard Theological Review, 1925
The long-accepted theory that Hebrew literature is largely the product of Babylonian influences is now discredited, both because of the unquestionable originality of Hebrew thought, in general, and in particular because the use of cuneiform models and materials is recognized to have been greatly overrated.
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