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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.

Apocalyptic literature. --- Literature, Apocalyptic --- Literature --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Breaking with common views on Jewish proto-apocalyptic literature, in a postmodern manner, this work approaches one particular proto-apocalyptic text, Isaiah 24-27, the so-called "Isaiah Apocalypse", intertextually. This reading finds that the Isaiah Apocalypse redeploys and controls other texts, helping secure the authority of those texts as well as its own vision of the end. The first chapter surveys approaches to late Israelite prophecy and presents a new "intertextual" way of viewing this material. The chapters that follow investigate the "eternal covenant" and its role in intertextual space; Isaiah 25's construal of Israel's relationship to other nations; the central role of the "righteous" in Isaiah 26; and Isaiah 27, which points towards the victory of YHWH's order over chaos. Readers interested in the development of Jewish apocalyptic literature, the social arrangements of second-Temple Judaism, and postmodern treatments of biblical texts will find this volume useful.

Apocalyptic literature --- History and criticism --- 224.2 --- -Literature, Apocalyptic --- Literature --- Jesaja. Isaias --- -Jesaja. Isaias --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Apocalyptic literature - History and criticism --- End of time

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This is a new and revised edition of the book first published 1980. It contains new introductory and concluding chapters as well as a Bibliography and updated Index. Furthermore, substantial corrections, updates, and changes have been made in the original text. The changes concern matters of language and style, they nuance the line of argumentation, and they update the discussion of major issues. The new chapters fill several scholarly gaps that have opened since the initial publication of this book in 1980. The new Introductory Chapter explores new venues and issues in the study and assessment of the Hekhalot literature and relevant passages in apocalyptic literature, and this in light of epistemological and ontological considerations. The Concluding Chapter discusses the ritual praxis of the experience of the Hekhalot mystics and its affitnity to magic, and this in terms of new approaches to ritual theory.

Throne of God. --- 296*64 --- God --- Merkava --- Joods messianisme en apocalyptiek --- Throne --- 296*64 Joods messianisme en apocalyptiek --- Throne of God --- Mysticism --- Apocalyptic literature. --- Literature, Apocalyptic --- Literature --- Judaism.

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Apocalyptic Bodies traces the biblical notions of the end of the world as represented in ancient and modern texts, art, music and popular culture, for example the paintings of Bosch. Tina Pippin addresses the question of how far we, in the late twentieth century, are capable of reading and responding to the 'signs of the times'. It will appeal not only to those studying religion, but also to those fascinated with interpretations of the end of the world.

Apocalyptic literature. --- End of the world --- End of the world in literature. --- End of the world in art. --- Literature, Apocalyptic --- Literature --- Biblical teaching.

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Apocalyptic literature --- Littérature apocalyptique --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- 296*64 --- 228 --- 229 --- -Literature, Apocalyptic --- Literature --- Joods messianisme en apocalyptiek --- Apocalyps. Boek der Openbaring van Johannes. Apocalyptiek --- Apocriefen. Pseudepigrafen. Deutero-canonieke boeken --- History and criticism --- -Joods messianisme en apocalyptiek --- 296*64 Joods messianisme en apocalyptiek --- -Literature --- Literature, Apocalyptic --- -296*64 Joods messianisme en apocalyptiek --- Littérature apocalyptique --- Apocalyptic literature - History and criticism.