Revealed wisdom : studies in Apocalyptic in honour of Christopher Rowland / edited by John Ashton ; contributors, Harold W. Attridge [and twenty others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ashton, John F., editor.

Attridge, Harold W., contributor.

Series:

Ancient Judaism and early Christianity ; Volume 88.

Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 1871-6636 ; Volume 88

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apocalyptic literature.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of twenty-one essays clustered around the theme of apocalyptic—revelations of hitherto undisclosed divine mysteries to human seers, either directly or through the mediation of an interpreting angel. Preliminary essays on the Book of Job, Messianism, and apocalyptic ethics are followed by five studies centred upon Jewish apocalypses composed around the turn of the era, two anonymous, three pseudonymous, and four essays on New Testament writers, two on Paul, one on Mark, and one on John. A reflection upon an early Islamic convert from Judaism, emphasizing the ‘Abrahamic-lexicon’ common to all three religions of the book, is succeeded by essays on two medieval Christian visionaries, Joachim of Fiore and Francis of Assisi. After a further essay on a little known Syriac apocalyptic text the volume concludes with studies of four different aspects of the Book of Revelation itself.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / John Ashton

1 The Opening of Heaven in the Book of Job / C.R.A. Morray-Jones

2 Ethics in Apocalyptic / John Barton

3 Towards a Taxonomy of Jewish Messianisms / Philip Alexander

4 Psalm 90 and Isaiah 65 in Jubilees 23 / James C. VanderKam

5 The Temple Library in Apocalyptic Legend / William Horbury

6 Primordial Lights: The Logos and Adoil in the Johannine Prologue and 2 Enoch / Andrei A. Orlov

7 The Date of 2 Baruch / Martin Goodman

8 Seeing and Understanding in 4 Ezra / Michael E. Stone

9 The Transformation of Paul’s Apocalyptic Ideas in the First Two Centuries / Adela Yarbro Collins

10 Paul and Universalism / Christopher Tuckett

11 The Reader of Mark 13:14b as the (Re-)Interpreter of Apocalyptic / John Muddiman

12 Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility in the Fourth Gospel / Harold W. Attridge

13 Jewish Apocalyptic Lore in Early Islam / John C. Reeves

14 The Concordist Imagination: A Theme in the History of Eschatology / Bernard McGinn

15 Hope Against Hope: A Reading of Joachim of Fiore / Peter Cramer

16 Francis of Assisi as Apocalyptic Visionary / Ian Boxall

17 “The Young Daniel”: A Little Known Syriac Apocalyptic Text. Introduction and Translation / Sebastian Brock

18 The Place of the Book of Revelation in a New Testament Theology / Robert Morgan

19 Pseudonymity and the Revelation of John / Lorenzo DiTommaso

20 From Seer to Saint: Psychotherapeutic Change in the Book of Revelation / Dan Merkur

21 Chaos and New Creation / Andrew Chester

Index of Names and Subjects.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-27204-6

OCLC:

895033286

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004272040 DOI