Eschatology in the Bible and in Jewish and Christian tradition / edited by Henning Graf Reventlow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reventlow, Henning Graf.

Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

Series:

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 243.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 243

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eschatology--Biblical teaching--Congresses.

Eschatology.

Eschatology--Biblical teaching.

Eschatology--History of doctrines--Congresses.

Eschatology--History of doctrines.

Eschatology, Jewish--Congresses.

Eschatology, Jewish.

Eschatology--Comparative studies--Congresses.

Genre:

Comparative studies.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

267 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, [1997]

Summary:

This is the fourth volume in the series of collaborations between the Department of Bible in Tel Aviv University, Israel, and the Faculty of Theology in the University of the Ruhr, Bochum, Germany. This symposium, held in Bochum in 1995, discussed a topic important for both communities of believers, starting with the Bible and tracking its role through the different stages of the respective tradition-histories. This time the theme was eschatology. The participants engaged in a lively discussion (from the Jewish side) on messianism and Zionism, Qumran, Mishnah and Kabbalah, and (from the Christian side) on the Bible, recent Protestant ethics and systematic theology. The volume concludes with the report of a panel discussion on the essence of eschatology in Jewish and Christian thinking: is it a spiritualized idea or a material expectation for the world?

Contents:

Messianism and Zionism / Yehoshua Amir

Early Christian faith as 'hope against hope' / Horst Balz

Not all is in the hands of heaven : eschatology and Kabbalah / Rachel Elior

Eschatology and ethics : their relation in recent continental Protestantism / Christofer Frey

Eschatology and the Book of Jeremiah / Yair Hoffman

Points of departure for a Christian eschatology / Christian Link

The Son of Man and the angels : reflections on the formation of Christology in the context of eschatology / Gottfried Nebe

Eschatological motives in Qumran literature : the Messianic concept / Bilhah Nitzan

Leadership and Messianism in the time of the Mishnah / Aharon Oppenheimer

The eschatologization of the Prophetic Books : a comparative study / Henning Graf Reventlow

Character and function of divine sayings in the Elijah and Elisha traditions / Winfried Thiel

From prophetic to apocalyptic eschatology / Benjamin Uffenheimer

Expectations of the divine kingdom in biblical and postbiblical literature / Moshe Weinfeld

Aspects of the last judgment in the Gospel according to Matthew / Klaus Wengst.

Notes:

"Fourth volume of papers read at symposia between the Department of Bible of Tel Aviv University and the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Bochum."--Editor's preface.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

ISBN:

1850756643

OCLC:

37575793