Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy: On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2015 Collins), book
Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy: On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2015) is a book by John J. Collins.
Abstract
"A highly regarded expert on the Jewish apocalyptic tradition, John J. Collins has written extensively on the subject. Nineteen of his essays written over the last fifteen years, including previously unpublished contributions, are brought together for the first time in this volume. Its thematic essays organized in five sections, Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy complements and enriches Collins’s well-known book The Apocalyptic Imagination.."--Publisher description.
Editions
Published in Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2015
Contents
Introduction : the genre apocalypse reconsidered.
- 1. Apocalypse and prophecy.
The eschatology of Zechariah -- The beginning of the end of the world in the Hebrew Bible -- Apocalypticism and the transformation of prophecy in the second temple period.
- 2. Variations on a genre.
Enochic Judaism: An assessment -- The genre of the book of Jubilees -- The Sibyl and the Apocalypses: Generic relationships in Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity -- Gabriel and David: Some reflections on an enigmatic text -- The idea of election in 4 Ezra.
- 3. Themes in Jewish Apocalyptic literature.
Jerusalem and the temple in Jewish Apocalyptic literature of the second temple period -- Journeys to the world beyond in ancient Judaism -- The afterlife in Apocalyptic literature.
- 4. Pseudepigraphy. Pseudepigraphy and group formation in Second Temple Judaism -
Enoch and Ezra -- Sybilline Discourse. 5. Ethics and politics. Ethos and identify in Jewish Apocalyptic literature -- Apocalypse and empire -- Cognitive dissonance and eschatological violence: Fantasized solutions to a theological dilemma in Second Temple Judaism -- Radical religion and the ethical dilemmas of Apocalyptic Millenarianism.