Revealed Histories: Techniques for Ancient Jewish and Christian Historiography

Robert Hall

Revealed Histories: Techniques for Ancient Jewish and Christian Historiography
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
29 January 2015
Pages
288
ISBN
9781474230339

Revealed Histories: Techniques for Ancient Jewish and Christian Historiography

Robert Hall

Ancient Jewish and Christian writers frequently sought to persuade by claiming to understand the past through revelation. Hall shows how the long recitals of past events often found in apocalypses are not to be seen as mere preludes to predictions, but prove integral to the author’s argument. This original study concludes that many ancient Jews and Christians found claims to inspiration an acceptable basis for re-telling past events and that early Christian prophets consciously shaped not only the sayings of Jesus but the narrative structure in which the sayings occur.

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