Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Grabbe, Lester L.

Publication

London ; New York : T & T Clark International, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Haak, Robert D.
• Haak, Robert D. (Robert Donel), 1949-

Description

ix, 226 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha. Supplement series ; 46

Uniform Title

Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha. Supplement series 46.

Subject

• Apocalyptic literature > History and criticism
• Eschatology > Biblical teaching
• Eschatology > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600
• Eschatology, Jewish
• Prophecy > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600
• Prophecy > Judaism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1. Introduction. Introduction and overview / Lester L. Grabbe -- Prophecy, apocalypse and eschatology: reflections on the proposals of Lester Grabbe / John J. Collins -- Part 2. 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 -- Phophetic and apocalyptic: time for new definitions - and new thinking / Lester L. Grabbe -- Neither phophecies 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 dynamnics of messianic self-identity / James D. Tabor -- Part 3. Appendix. Poets, Scribes, or Preachers? The reality of prophecy in the second temple period / Lester L. Grabbe.

ISBN

• 0567084728 (hb)
• 0567084620 (pb)

OCLC

54819866

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library