Knowing the end from the beginning : the prophetic, the apocalyptic, and their relationships

Knowing the end from the beginning : the prophetic, the apocalyptic, and their relationships / [edited by] Lester L. Grabbe & Robert D. Haak.

Much has been written on prophecy and apocalyptic in recent decades, but the relationship between the two has been little explored. A major explicit debate on the question is very much needed and is now provided here. This collection of essays addresses the subject from a variety of points of view,...

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Other Authors: Grabbe, Lester L. (Editor), Haak, Robert D. (Robert Donel), 1949- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : T & T Clark International, [2003]
Series:Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha. Supplement series ; 46.
Subjects:
Bibel > Altes Testament
30-600
Apocalyptic literature > History and criticism > Congresses.
Prophecy > History > Congresses.
Prophecy > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600 > Congresses.
Prophecy > Judaism > Congresses.
Eschatology > Biblical teaching > Congresses.
Eschatology > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600 > Congresses.
Eschatology, Jewish > Congresses.
Apocalyptic literature.
BIBLES > General.
RELIGION > Biblical Reference > General.
RELIGION > Biblical Reference > Handbooks.
Apocalyptic literature
Prophetie
Apokalyptik
Profetieën.
Apocalyptiek.
Bijbel.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and overview / Lester L. Grabbe
  • Prophecy, apocalypse, and eschatology: reflections on the proposals of Lester Grabbe / John J. Collins
  • Transformations of apocalypticism in early Christianity / David E. Aune
  • The changing face of Babylon in prophetic/apocalyptic literature : seventh century BCE to first century CE and beyond / Alice Ogden Bellis
  • The eschatology of Zechariah / John J. Collins
  • Mythological discourse in Ezekiel and Daniel and the rise of apocalypticism in Israel / Stephen L. Cook
  • Phophetic and apocalyptic : time for new definitions, and new thinking / Lester L. Grabbe
  • Neither phophecies nor apocalypses : the Akkadian literary predictive texts / Martti Nissinen
  • Apocalypse, prophecy, and the New Testament / Christopher Rowland
  • The priesthood and the proto-apocalyptic reading of prophetic and pentateuchal texts / Marvin A. Sweeney
  • Are you the one? : the textual dynamnics of messianic self-identity / James D. Tabor
  • Appendix: Poets, scribes, or preachers? : the reality of prophecy in the Second Temple period / Lester L. Grabbe.

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