Mysteries and Revelations: Apocalyptic Studies since the Uppsala Colloquium (1991 Collins/Charlesworth), edited volume

Mysteries and Revelations: Apocalyptic Studies since the Uppsala Colloquium (1991) is a volume edited by John J. Collins and James H. Charlesworth.

Abstract

"This collection of essays had its origins in a symposium at the Society for Biblical Literature meeting in Anaheim on November 19, 1989, which marked the tenth anniversary of the Uppsala Colloquium on Apocalypticism, August 12-17, 1979"

Editions

Published in Sheffield [England]: JSOT Press, 1991 (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series, 9).

Contents

• Genre, Ideology and Social Movements in Jewish Apocalypticism / John J. Collins / 11-32
• Jewish apocalyptic tradition: The contribution of Italian scholarship / Gabriele Boccaccini / 33-50.
• The apocalyptic construction of reality in 1 Enoch / George W.E. Nickelsburg / 51-65.
• On reading an apocalypse / Michael E. Stone / 65-78.
• Revelation and rapture: The transformation of the visionary in the ascent apocalypses / Martha Himmelfarb / 79-90.
• Folk traditions in Jewish apocalyptic literature / James H. Charlesworth / 91-113.
• "Bahman Yasht": A Persian Apocalypse / Anders Hultgård / 114-134.
• Methodological reflections on the problem of definition of generic texts / David Hellholm /135-163.

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