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The Fate of the Dead. Studies on the Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 93)

By Richard Bauckham

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
1998
ISBN
9004112030, 9789004112032
LCC
BL501 .B38 1998
Open Library ID
OL356973M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22581159 bytes)
Series
Supplements to Novum Testamentum (NT.S) 93
Pages
441\441
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

This text presents a collection of studies which focus on personal eschatology in the Jewish and early Christian apocalypses. The apocalyptic tradition, from its Jewish origins until the early Middle Ages, is studied as a continuous literary tradition, in which both continuity of motifs and important changes in understanding of life after death can be charted. As well as better-known apocalypses, much attention is given to those neglected apocalypses which portray human destiny after death in detail, such as the "Apocalypse of Peter", the "Apocalypse of the Seven Heavens", the later apocalypses of Ezra, and the four apocalypses of the Virgin Mary. Relationships with Greco-Roman eschatology are explored, and several chapters show how specific New Testament texts are illuminated by close knowledge of this tradition of ideas and images of the hereafter.

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