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Spatiality and Apocalyptic Literature
Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel, 2016The 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.
Kelley Coblentz Bautch
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The Oxford handbook of apocalyptic literature
Choice Reviews Online, 2014The 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 ...
J. J. Collins
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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.
Adela Yarbro Collins
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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.
Witold Witakowski
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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.
Witold Witakowski
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The Rhetoric of Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
2014Although rhetorical analysis has been a well-established method in New Testament and Hebrew Bible studies, the rhetoric of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish apocalypses has received little attention. This chapter examines the rhetorical formation and function of Jewish apocalyptic literature. It begins by providing an overview of rhetoric and apocalyptic
Carol A Newsom
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Jewish Apocalyptic Literature as Resistance Literature
2014Jewish 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 ...
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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.exaly +2 more sources
The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature
Religious Studies Review, 2017B. Kelle
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Apocalyptic Literature and the Study of Early Jewish Mysticism [PDF]
, 2014 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.
Ra\'anan Boustan, Patrick McCullough
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