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Revealed Wisdom: Studies in Apocalyptic in Honour of Christopher Rowland

By John Ashton

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
9004272038, 9789004272033
ISSN
1871-6636
Google Books ID
kgnkBQAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2168366 bytes)
Series
Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 88
Pages
x+360\373
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-01-04 21:37:10

Description

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.

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