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The apocalyptic imagination : an introduction to the Jewish matrix of Christianity / John J. Collins.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BS646 .C65 1984
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism.
- Apocalyptic literature.
- Littérature apocalyptique--Histoire et critique.
- Local Subjects:
- Littérature apocalyptique--Histoire et critique.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 280 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crossroad, 1984.
- Contents:
- 1. The apocalyptic genre
- The genre apocalypse
- Apocalyptic eschatology
- Apocalypticism
- Apocalyptic language
- The settings of the genre
- The general matrix
- The social settings
- The compositional setting
- The literary function.
- 2. The early Enoch literature
- The figure of Enoch
- The book of the watchers
- The astronomical book
- The apocalypse of weeks
- The Epistle of Enoch
- The animal apocalypse
- An apocalyptic movement?
- Appendix: The Book of Jubilees.
- 3. Daniel
- The figure of Daniel
- The date and unity of Daniel
- Daniel 2
- The apocalyptic visions: Daniel 7
- The parallel visions
- Daniel 9
- Daniel 10-12
- Setting and function.
- 4. Related genres: Oracles and testaments
- I. Oracles
- The Sibylline oracles
- Oracles from the first century B.C.E.
- II. The testamentary literature
- The Testament of Moses
- The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
- Messianism in the Psalms of Solomon.
- 5. Qumran
- The history of Qumran
- Revelation
- Eschatology
- Messianic expectations
- The war of light and darkness
- Eschatology in the Hodayot
- Eschatological language
- The apocalypticism of the scrolls.
- 6. The similtudes of Enoch
- The genre of the similtudes
- The righteous in the similtudes
- "That Son of Man"
- The identification with Enoch
- The function of the similtudes
- Relation to the New Testament.
- 7. After the Fall: 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, and the Apocalypse of Abraham
- 4 Ezra
- 2 Baruch
- The Apocalypse of Abraham.
- 8. Apocalyptic literature from the Diaspora in the Roman period
- The Sibyllines
- Sib. Or. 5
- Sib. Or. 1 and 2
- Sib. Or. 4
- The apocalypses
- 2 Enoch
- 3 Baruch
- The Testament of Abraham.
- Epilogue: The legacy of Jewish apocalypticism
- The survival of the genre
- Christian origins
- The Book of Revelation
- Theological implications.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-274) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acc.# 200653.
- ISBN:
- 0824506235
- 9780824506230
- OCLC:
- 11089507
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