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1 online resource |
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Ancient Judaism and early Christianity, 1871-6636 ; v. 88 |
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Ancient Judaism and early Christianity ; v. 88.
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| Contents |
List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. The Opening of Heaven in the Book of Job; 2. Ethics in Apocalyptic; 3. Towards a Taxonomy of Jewish Messianisms; 4. Psalm 90 and Isaiah 65 in Jubilees 23; 5. The Temple Library in Apocalyptic Legend; 6. Primordial Lights: The Logos and Adoil in the Johannine Prologue and 2 Enoch; 7. The Date of 2 Baruch; 8. Seeing and Understanding in 4 Ezra; 9. The Transformation of Paul's Apocalyptic Ideas in the First Two Centuries; 10. Paul and Universalism; 11. The Reader of Mark 13:14b as the (Re- )Interpreter of Apocalyptic |
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12. Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility in the Fourth Gospel13. Jewish Apocalyptic Lore in Early Islam: Reconsidering Ka'b Al-Aḥbar; 14. The Concordist Imagination: A Theme in the History of Eschatology; 15. Hope Against Hope: A Reading of Joachim of Fiore; 16. Francis of Assisi as Apocalyptic Visionary; 17. "The Young Daniel": A Little Known Syriac Apocalyptic Text. Introduction and Translation; 18. The Place of the Book of Revelation in a New Testament Theology; 19. Pseudonymity and the Revelation of John; 20. From Seer to Saint: Psychotherapeutic Change in the Book of Revelation |
| Summary |
Articles on biblical books-Job, Paul, Mark, John-are accompanied by essays upon Messianism and apocalyptic ethics, plus studies on five first-century Jewish apocalypses, an early champion of Islam, two medieval Christian seers, and finally the Book of Revelation itself |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013617
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Bible fast |
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Apocalyptic literature.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Eschatology.
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Apocalyptic literature
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Apokalyptik
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rowland, Christopher, 1947- honouree.
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Ashton, John F., editor
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| ISBN |
9789004272040 |
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9004272046 |
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