Results 241 to 250 of about 58,439 (301)

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.
openaire   +1 more source

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.
openaire   +1 more source

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.
openaire   +1 more source

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.
openaire   +1 more source

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.
openaire   +1 more source

Apocalyptic Themes in Biblical Literature

Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, 1999
Apocalyptic themes in the Bible imaginatively address issues of perennial concern to communities of faith. Apocalyptic rhetoric has the potential to unmask forces that pretend to be benign, but are actually exploitative.
openaire   +1 more source

Jewish Apocalyptic Literature as Resistance Literature

2014
Jewish apocalyptic literature combines narrative and vision and draws elements from the sacred traditions of the Jewish people, with influences from the Persian, Mesopotamian, Persian, and Greco-Roman worlds. The first extant examples of the literary genre apocalypse date back to the Hellenistic period, in which the earliest apocalypses took shape ...
openaire   +1 more source

Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature

Abstract The chapter aims to give a comprehensive view of the current state of research on prophetic and apocalyptic literature in the Hebrew Bible. The first part focuses on the understanding of prophecy as a religious-historical phenomenon that must form the basis for any prophetic research.
openaire   +1 more source

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 ...
openaire   +1 more source

Sibylline Oracles and Other Apocalyptic Literature

2018
The pseudo-prophetic Alexandra is one of many such productions of the period. There are similarities with the Third Sibylline Oracle in particular. Also with stories in Phlegon of Tralles, the Book of Daniel, and the Oracle of the Potter. But these are merely stylistic and superficial parallels. Messianism and anti-Roman venom are absent from Lykophron.
openaire   +1 more source