Seers, Sibyls, and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism (2001 Collins), book

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Seer, Sybils, and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism (2001) is a book by John J. Collins.

Abstract

"This volume brings together essays written over two decades by a leading authority in the field. The collection includes 2 recent essays that are published here for the first time. The articles cover major aspects of the discussion of Jewish apocalypticism, in relation to the Hebrew bible, the New Testament and the Hellenistic-Roman world. Distinctive strengths of the volume include clusters of essays on the Sibylline oracles and on the relationship between apocalypticism and wisdom. A section of the book is devoted to studies on Daniel."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Leiden: Brill, 2001 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 54).

Contents

• Introduction
  • 1. Before the Canon. Scriptures in Second Temple Judaism
• I. Apocalypticism
  • 2. Genre, Ideology and Social Movements in Jewish Apocalypticism
  • 3. The Place of Apocalypticism in the Religion of Israel
  • 4. Jewish Apocalypticism against its Hellenistic Near Eastern Environment
  • 5. Apocalyptic Eschatology as the Transcendence of Death
  • 6. The Kingdom of God in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
  • 7. The Christian Adaptation of the Apocalyptic Genre
• II. Daniel
  • 8. Nebuchadnezzar and the Kingdom of God. Deferred Eschatology in the Jewish Diaspora
  • 9. Stirring up the Great Sea: The Religio-Historical Background of Daniel 7
  • 10. The Meaning of the End in the Book of Daniel
  • 11. "The King has become a Jew": The Perspective on the Gentile World in Bel and the Snake
• III. Sibyls
  • 12. The Jewish Adaption of Sibylline Oracles
  • 13. The Sibyl and the Potter: Political Propaganda in Ptolemaic Egypt
  • 14. A Symbol of Otherness. Circumcision and Salvation in the First Century
• IV. Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 15. The Origin of the Qumran Community: a Review of the Evidence
  • 16. Was the Dead Sea Sect an Apocalyptic Movement?
  • 17. The Origin of Evil in Apocalyptic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 18. Prophecy and Fulfillment in the Qumran Scrolls
• V. Wisdom and Apocalypticism
  • 19. Cosmos and Salvation: Jewish Wisdom and Apocalypticism in the Hellenistic Age
  • 20. The Sage in the Apocalyptic and Pseudepigraphic Literature
  • 21. The Root of Immortality. Death in the Context of Jewish Wisdom
  • 22. Wisdom, Apocalypticism and Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 23. Wisdom, Apocalypticism and Generic Compatibility

External links

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