Revolt of the Scribes: Resistance and Apocalyptic Origins (2010 Horsley), book

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Revolt of the Scribes: Resistance and Apocalyptic Origins (2010) is a book by Richard A. Horsley.

Abstract

"In previous studies, Richard A. Horsley has set Jesus in the context of Jewish prophetic and social banditry movements and has elaborated the imperial context of the New Testament writings. Here he surveys responses in Second Temple Jewish literature to the rise of Hellenistic and Roman empires, discovering in a range of apocalyptic writings the traces of a coherent movement of defiance, critique, and resistance to tyranny. Revolt of the Scribes breaks new ground in the study of apocalyptic origins and in our understanding of Jewish life in the Greco-Roman world."--Publisher description.

"If earlier scholarship on apocalyptic literature was once described as "clueless about apocalypticism," it was due in part to a focus on questions of definition, literary genre, and theological eccentricity. Richard A. Horsley takes a different approach, letting the language of the apocalypses themselves reveal their chief concern: the expanding domination by foreign empires and the form that popular defiance should take. Most telling are the traces where Judean scribes wrote themselves into their texts - and thus into God's purposes in history."--Jacket.

Editions

Published in Minneapolis, M: Fortress, 2010.

Contents

Introduction: "Clueless about apocalypticism"? -- Scribal resistance to Hellenistic imperial rule -- The escalating crisis in Judea under Hellenistic rule -- The statue and the stone : the tales of Daniel -- The giants who kill and devour : Enoch's Book of watchers -- Wolves and sheep, eagles and lambs : Enoch's Animal vision and other historical surveys -- A terrifying fourth beast : the visions of Daniel -- Scribal resistance to Roman imperial rule -- Roman conquest and Roman rule -- The war against the "Kittim" : the covenant community at Qumran -- The arrogance of the dragon : Roman conquest in the Psalms of Solomon -- Visions of vindication : the parables of Enoch and the updated Testament of Moses -- Demonstration, organization, and assassination : parallel scribal resistance -- Conclusion: Rethinking "apocalyptic" texts

External links

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