Dreams, visions, imaginations : Jewish, Christian and Gnostic views of the world to come / edited by Jens Schröter, Tobias Nicklas and Armand Puig i Tàrrech ; in collaboration with Konrad Schwarz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schröter, Jens, 1961- editor.

Nicklas, Tobias, 1967- editor.

Puig i Tàrrech, Armand, 1953- editor.

Series:

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche ; Beiheft 247.

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche, 0171-6441 ; volume 247

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apocalyptic literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 550 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2021]

Summary:

"The contributions in this volume are focused on the historical origins, religious provenance, and social function of ancient Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, including so-called 'Gnostic' writings. Although it is disputed whether there was a genre of 'apocalyptic literature,' it is obvious that numerous texts from ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and other religious milieus share a specific view of history and the world to come. Many of these writings are presented in form of a heavenly (divine) revelation, mediated through an otherworldly figure (like an angel) to an elected human being who discloses this revelation to his recipients in written form. In different strands of early Judaism, ancient Christianity as well as in Gnosticism, Manichaeism, and Islam, apocalyptic writings played an important role from early on and were produced also in later centuries. One of the most characteristic features of these texts is their specific interpretation of history, based on the knowledge about the upper, divine realm and the world to come." --Provided by publisher

Contents:

Where Should We Look for the Roots of Jewish Apocalypticism? / John J. Collins

Apocalyptic Literature and Experiences of Contact with the Other-World in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity / Luca Arcari

Time and History in Ancient Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Writings / Lorenzo DiTommaso

Apocalyptic Writings in Qumran and the Community's Idea of History / Jörg Frey

This Age and the Age to Come in 2 Baruch / Matthias Henze

Jesus and Jewish Apocalyptic / Armand Puig i Tàrrech

Time and History: The Use of the Past and the Present in the Book of Revelation / Adela Yarbro Collins

Dreams, Visions and the World-to-Come according to the Shepherd of Hermas / Joseph Verheyden

Ezra and his Visions: From Jewish Apocalypse to Medieval Tour of Hell / Jens Schröter

Views of the World to Come in the Jewish-Christian Sibylline Oracles / Olivia Stewart Lester

Defying the Divine: Jannes and Jambres in Apocalyptic Perspective / Marcos Aceituno Donoso

Between Jewish and Egyptian Thinking: The Apocalypse of Sophonias as a Bridge between Two Worlds? / Michael Sommer

From the 'Gnostic Dialogues' to the 'Apostolic Memoirs': Literary and Historical Settings of the Nag Hammadi Apocalypses / Dylan M. Burns

What is 'Gnostic' within Gnostic Apocalypses? / Jean-Daniel Dubois

Being in corpore/carne and extra corpus: some interrelations within the Apocalypsis Pauli/Visio Pauli / Thomas J. Kraus

From Historical Apocalypses to Apocalyptic History: Late Antique Historians and Apocalyptic Writings / Tobias Nicklas

Qur'anic Eschatology in its Biblical and Late Ancient Matrix / Stephen J. Shoemaker

The Book of Revelation and Visual Culture / Lourdes García Ureña.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783110713527

3110713527

OCLC:

1237549767

Publisher Number:

9783110713527