TY - BOOK ID - 5229053 TI - The fate of the dead : studies on the Jewish and Christian apocalypses PY - 1998 VL - 93 SN - 01679732 SN - 9004112030 9004267417 9789004267411 9789004112032 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Apocalyptic literature KW - Eschatology KW - Future life KW - Eschatology, Jewish KW - Littérature apocalyptique KW - Eschatologie KW - Vie future KW - Eschatologie juive KW - History and criticism KW - History of doctrines KW - Christianity KW - Judaism KW - Histoire et critique KW - Histoire des doctrines KW - Christianisme KW - Judaïsme KW - 228 KW - -Eschatology KW - -Eschatology, Jewish KW - -Future life KW - -Afterlife KW - Eternal life KW - Life, Future KW - Life after death KW - Eternity KW - Immortality KW - Near-death experiences KW - Last things (Theology) KW - Religious thought KW - Theology, Doctrinal KW - Literature, Apocalyptic KW - Literature KW - Apocalyps. Boek der Openbaring van Johannes. Apocalyptiek KW - -History of doctrines KW - Religious aspects KW - -Apocalyps. Boek der Openbaring van Johannes. Apocalyptiek KW - Littérature apocalyptique KW - Judaïsme KW - Afterlife KW - Judaism&delete& KW - History and criticism. KW - History of doctrines. KW - Apocalyptic literature - History and criticism KW - Eschatology - History of doctrines - Early church, ca 30-600 KW - Future life - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca 30-600 KW - Eschatology, Jewish - History of doctrines KW - Future life - Judaism - History of doctrines UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5229053 AB - These studies 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, major and often pioneering 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. Several chapters show how specific New Testament texts are illuminated by close knowledge of this tradition of ideas and images of the hereafter. ER -