The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of the New Testament Thought

The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of the New Testament Thought
Format
Hardback
Publisher
1517 Media
Country
United States
Published
1 April 2017
Pages
396
ISBN
9781451492668

The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of the New Testament Thought

The contemporary study of Jewish apocalypticism today recognizes the wealth and diversity of ancient traditions concerned with the unveiling of heavenly matters–understood to involve revealed wisdom, the revealed resolution of time, and revealed cosmology–in marked contrast to an earlier focus on eschatology as such. The shift in focus has had a more direct impact on the study of ancient pseudepigraphic literature, however, than in New Testament studies, where the narrower focus on eschatological expectation remains dominant. In this Companion, an international team of scholars draws out the implications of the newest scholarship for the variety of New Testament writings. Each entry presses the boundaries of current discussion regarding the nature of apocalypticism in application to a particular New Testament author. The cumulative effect is to reveal, as never before, early Christianity, its Christology, cosmology, and eschatology, as expressions of tendencies in Second Temple Judaism.

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