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Trajectories in Near Eastern Apocalyptic: A Postrabbinic Jewish Apocalypse Reader (Resources for Biblical Study)

By John C. Reeves

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers - Society of Biblical Literature
Year
2005
ISBN
9781589831025, 1589831020, 9004130950, 9789004130951, 9781435614550
LCC
BS1705 .R44 2005
Google Books ID
TO6q6Je0r24C
Open Library ID
OL21420848M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
980 kB (1003488 bytes)
Pages
280\279
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Modern treatments of Jewish apocalyptic usually terminate their discussions of this literature with the triumph of Rome over nationalist rebels at the time of the Second Jewish Revolt (132?135 C.E.). They hence fail to appreciate the impact of the subsequent rise of scriptural authority for the Abrahamic religions and the renewed vitality of the apocalyptic genre as a favored literary vehicle for the expression of social and cultural concerns by the major Near Eastern religious communities during the second half of the first millennium C.E. The present volume begins the process of righting this imbalance by providing an English-language anthology of a series of influential Jewish apocalypses emanating from the Near East from roughly the early seventh to the mid-twelfth centuries C.E. Each text is newly translated into English and provided with an annotated commentary that elucidates its historical, literary, and religious contexts.

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