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Knowing the end from the beginning : the prophetic, the apocalyptic and their relationships / Lester L. Grabbe & Robert D. Haak.

By: Grabbe, Lester L
Contributor(s): Haak, Robert D. (Robert Donel), 1949-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha: 46.Publisher: London ; New York : T & T Clark International, 2003Description: ix, 226 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0567084728; 0567084620 (pbk.)Subject(s): Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism | Prophecy -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
PART I. INTRODUCTION. Introduction and overview / Lester L. Grabbe -- Prophecy, apocalypse and eschatology: reflections on the proposals of Lester Grabbe / John J. Collins -- PART II. ARTICLES. Transformations of apocalypticism in early Christianity / David E. Aune -- The changing face of Babylon in prophetic/apocalyptic literature: Seventh Century BCE to First Century CE and beyond / Alice Ogden Bellis -- The eschatology of Zechariah / John J. Collins -- Mythological discourse in Ezekiel and Daniel and the rise of apocalypticism in Israel / Stephen L. Cook -- Prophetic and apocalyptic: time for new definitions - and new thinking / Lester L. Grabbe -- Neither prophecies nor apocalypses: the Akkadian literary predictive texts / Martti Nissinen -- Apocalypse, prophecy and the New Testament / Christopher Rowland -- The priesthood and the proto-apocalyptic reading of prophetic and pentateuchal texts / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Are you the one? The textual dynamics of messianic self-identity / James D. Tabor -- PART III. APPENDIX. Poets, scribes, or preachers? The reality of prophecy in the second temple period / Lester L. Grabbe.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

PART I. INTRODUCTION. Introduction and overview / Lester L. Grabbe -- Prophecy, apocalypse and eschatology: reflections on the proposals of Lester Grabbe / John J. Collins -- PART II. ARTICLES. Transformations of apocalypticism in early Christianity / David E. Aune -- The changing face of Babylon in prophetic/apocalyptic literature: Seventh Century BCE to First Century CE and beyond / Alice Ogden Bellis -- The eschatology of Zechariah / John J. Collins -- Mythological discourse in Ezekiel and Daniel and the rise of apocalypticism in Israel / Stephen L. Cook -- Prophetic and apocalyptic: time for new definitions - and new thinking / Lester L. Grabbe -- Neither prophecies nor apocalypses: the Akkadian literary predictive texts / Martti Nissinen -- Apocalypse, prophecy and the New Testament / Christopher Rowland -- The priesthood and the proto-apocalyptic reading of prophetic and pentateuchal texts / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Are you the one? The textual dynamics of messianic self-identity / James D. Tabor -- PART III. APPENDIX. Poets, scribes, or preachers? The reality of prophecy in the second temple period / Lester L. Grabbe.

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