UID:
almahu_9949297114802882
Umfang:
1 online resource (VI, 550 p.)
ISBN:
9783110714746
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9783110750720
Serie:
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft , 247
Inhalt:
The contributions in this volume are focused on the historical origins, religious provenance, and social function of ancient Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, including so-called 'Gnostic' writings. Although it is disputed whether there was a genre of 'apocalyptic literature,' it is obvious that numerous texts from ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and other religious milieus share a specific view of history and the world to come. Many of these writings are presented in form of a heavenly (divine) revelation, mediated through an otherworldly figure (like an angel) to an elected human being who discloses this revelation to his recipients in written form. In different strands of early Judaism, ancient Christianity as well as in Gnosticism, Manichaeism, and Islam, apocalyptic writings played an important role from early on and were produced also in later centuries. One of the most characteristic features of these texts is their specific interpretation of history, based on the knowledge about the upper, divine realm and the world to come. Against this background the volume deals with a wide range of apocalyptic texts from different periods and various religious backgrounds.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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Introduction --
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Where Should We Look for the Roots of Jewish Apocalypticism? --
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Apocalyptic Literature and Experiences of Contact with the Other-World in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity --
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Time and History in Ancient Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Writings --
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Apocalyptic Writings in Qumran and the Community's Idea of History --
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This Age and the Age to Come in 2 Baruch --
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Jesus and Jewish Apocalyptic --
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Time and History: The Use of the Past and the Present in the Book of Revelation --
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Dreams, Visions and the World-to-Come according to the Shepherd of Hermas --
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Ezra and his Visions: From Jewish Apocalypse to Medieval Tour of Hell --
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Views of the World to Come in the Jewish-Christian Sibylline Oracles --
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Defying the Divine: Jannes and Jambres in Apocalyptic Perspective¹ --
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Between Jewish and Egyptian Thinking: The Apocalypse of Sophonias as a Bridge between Two Worlds? --
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From the 'Gnostic Dialogues' to the 'Apostolic Memoirs': Literary and Historical Settings of the Nag Hammadi Apocalypses --
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What is 'Gnostic' within Gnostic Apocalypses? --
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Being in corpore/carne and extra corpus: some interrelations within the Apocalypsis Pauli/Visio Pauli --
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From Historical Apocalypses to Apocalyptic History: Late Antique Historians and Apocalyptic Writings --
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Qur'anic Eschatology in its Biblical and Late Ancient Matrix --
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The Book of Revelation and Visual Culture --
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List of Contributors --
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Index of Ancient Sources --
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Index of Modern Authors --
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Index of Subjects
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
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DG Ebook Package English 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110750720
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DG Plus DeG Package 2021 Part 1, De Gruyter, 9783110750706
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783110714777
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783110713527
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Theologie/Religionswissenschaften
DOI:
10.1515/9783110714746
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110714746
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110714746
