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Power of revalations – eschatology, apocalyptic literature and millenarism

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
Paper examines social capacities of apocalyptic literature and presents some of its crucial concepts, motives and functions. It offers some of most important uptakes of end time narratives usage in a religious, but in a political and cultural context ...
Milan Tomašević
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Message of Biblical Apocalyptic Literature and its Relevance for Contemporary Christianity in Ghana [PDF]

open access: yesE-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2020
Undoubtedly, apocalyptic literature is among the difficult literature to understand and to interpret due to its literary genre and mode of communication which is often in the form of visions.
Emmanuel Foster Asamoah   +2 more
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God’s victory and salvation. A soteriological approach to the subject in apocalyptic literature

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
One of the main points of interests in the apocalyptic literature is the salvation of God’s people. The topic is shown from a variety of perspectives. One of them is exceptional and very prominent in the apocalyptic genre – this is God’s victory.
Łukasz Bergel
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“The Abomination of Desolation”: Eastern Christian Apocalyptic Literature and the Symbolic Construction of Islam

open access: yesCollectanea Christiana Orientalia, 2023
This article focuses on the Christian apocalyptic literature that was produced as a specific reaction to the emergence of Islam and the consolidation of the Islamic rule in the Eastern provinces of Byzantium.
E. Grypeou
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Melchizedek in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature [PDF]

open access: yesJournal for the Study of the New Testament, 2018
The study of especially apocalyptic traditions from the Second Temple period that are concerned with the figure of Melchizedek throws light on a vitality of interest that presupposes but is no longer simply dependent on the pre-texts of Gen. 14 and Ps. 110 in the Hebrew Bible. Although the epistle to the Hebrews is clearly influenced by these pre-texts,
L. Stuckenbruck
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Daniel 10 as a Window onto the Ancient Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

open access: yesReligions
This article examines Daniel 10 as a key witness to the formation of early Jewish apocalyptic literature. The chapter portrays Daniel as a sage whose encounter with a celestial messenger prepares him to guide his community.
Marco Settembrini
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Interpretation Approaches for Apocalyptic Literature: An Evaluation [PDF]

open access: yesE-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2020
Apocalyptic literature is one of the literature that has been subjected to numerous exegetical approaches due to the difficulty of understanding its content. This has resulted in misinterpretation among Christians.
Emmanuel Forster Asamoah
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COVID-19 Pandemic and Apocalyptic Literature: An Analysis of Margret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake at the time of Coronavirus

open access: yesArab World English Journal, 2021
Literature has been an imitator of life for generations on this earth, this literature has voiced the voiceless. Recent contemporary and postmodern literary theories have catered to burgeoning notions of logic that go beyond human survival on the planet.
Tawhida Akhter
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A Comparative Study of Apocalyptic Concepts in Ahmad Shamloo’s »Journey« and William Butler Yeats’s »The Second Coming« [PDF]

open access: yesادبیات تطبیقی, 2019
Apocalyptic literature appeared to disclose human’s anxieties in a complicated world. The present study aims at indicating roots of such a literature and displaying the so called Apocalyptic poetry at the Modern age.
Moslem Zolfagharkhani
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Environmental Vision of Saija’s Characters in the Kelomang Novel by Qizink La Aziva

open access: yesJournal of Innovation in Educational and Cultural Research, 2022
In the current literary realm, literary texts that present natural destruction events implicitly or explicitly are called apocalyptic literature. The main characteristic of apocalyptic literature is the emergence of characters who have heroic characters.
Ghulamin Khalim Subagiyo, Tommi Yuniawan
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