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Knowing the end from the beginning :

Grabbe, Lester L.

Knowing the end from the beginning : the prophetic, the apocalyptic, and their relationships / Lester L. Grabbe & Robert D. Haak. - London ; New York : T & T Clark International, c2003. - ix, 226 p. ; 24 cm. - Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha. Supplement series ; 46 .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction and overview / Lester L. Grabbe -- Prophecy, apocalypse, and eschatology: reflections on the proposals of Lester Grabbe / John J. Collins -- Transformations of apocalypticism in early Christianity / David E. Aune -- The changing face of Babylon in prophetic/apocalyptic literature : seventh century BCE to first century CE and beyond / Alice Ogden Bellis -- The eschatology of Zechariah / John J. Collins -- Mythological discourse in Ezekiel and Daniel and the rise of apocalypticism in Israel / Stephen L. Cook -- Phophetic and apocalyptic : time for new definitions, and new thinking / Lester L. Grabbe -- Neither phophecies nor apocalypses : the Akkadian literary predictive texts / Martti Nissinen -- Apocalypse, prophecy, and the New Testament / Christopher Rowland -- The priesthood and the proto-apocalyptic reading of prophetic and pentateuchal texts / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Are you the one? The textual dynamnics of messianic self-identity / James D. Tabor -- Appendix: Poets, scribes, or preachers? The reality of prophecy in the second temple period / Lester L. Grabbe.

0567084728 0567084620 (pbk.)

2004298588


Apocalyptic literature.
Prophecy--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

BS646 / .G72 2003

220/.046

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