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Author Grabbe, Lester L.

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

Publication Info. London ; New York : T & T Clark International ; London : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 226 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha. Supplement series ; 46
Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha. Supplement series ; 46.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Introduction and overview / Lester L. Grabbe -- Prophecy, apocalypse, and eschatology: reflections on the proposals of Lester Grabbe / John J. Collins -- Transformations of apocalypticism in early Christianity / David E. Aune -- Changing face of Babylon in prophetic/apocalyptic literature : seventh century BCE to first century CE and beyond / Alice Ogden Bellis -- 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 -- 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 -- Appendix: Poets, scribes, or preachers? The reality of prophecy in the second temple period / Lester L. Grabbe.
Summary Much has been written on prophecy and apocalyptic in recent decades, but the relationship between the two has been little explored. A major explicit debate on the question is very much needed and is now provided here. This collection of essays addresses the subject from a variety of points of view, including the issues of definitions, ancient Near Eastern ''prophecies'', social anthropology, place of the temple, and modern apocalyptic movements. The Introduction summarizes the individual essays and then engages the contributors in a debate on the main points relevant to the topic. It argues th.
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Subject Altes Testament.
Apocalyptic literature.
Apocalyptic literature.
Prophecy -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Haak, Robert D. (Robert Donel), 1949-
Other Form: Print version: Grabbe, Lester L. Knowing the end from the beginning. London ; New York : T & T Clark International, ©2003 0567084728 (DLC) 2004298588 (OCoLC)54819866
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0567084620 (paperback)
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