Dreams, Visions, Imaginations: Jewish, Christian and Gnostic Views of the World to Come

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Dreams, Visions, Imaginations

Jewish, Christian and Gnostic Views of the World to Come

Edited by: Jens Schröter , Tobias Nicklas and Armand Puig i Tàrrech

Volume 247 in the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110714746

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About this book

The contributions in this volume are focused on the historical origins, religious provenance, and social function of ancient Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, including so-called ‘Gnostic’ writings. Although it is disputed whether there was a genre of ‘apocalyptic literature,’ it is obvious that numerous texts from ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and other religious milieus share a specific view of history and the world to come. Many of these writings are presented in form of a heavenly (divine) revelation, mediated through an otherworldly figure (like an angel) to an elected human being who discloses this revelation to his recipients in written form. In different strands of early Judaism, ancient Christianity as well as in Gnosticism, Manichaeism, and Islam, apocalyptic writings played an important role from early on and were produced also in later centuries. One of the most characteristic features of these texts is their specific interpretation of history, based on the knowledge about the upper, divine realm and the world to come.

Against this background the volume deals with a wide range of apocalyptic texts from different periods and various religious backgrounds.

Author / Editor information

Jens Schröter, Berlin, Germany; Tobias Nicklas, Regensburg, Germany; Armand Puig i Tàrrech, Barcelona, Spain.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Where Should We Look for the Roots of Jewish Apocalypticism? John J. Collins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Apocalyptic Literature and Experiences of Contact with the Other-World in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity Luca Arcari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Time and History in Ancient Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Writings Lorenzo DiTommaso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Apocalyptic Writings in Qumran and the Community’s Idea of History Jörg Frey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
This Age and the Age to Come in 2 Baruch Matthias Henze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Jesus and Jewish Apocalyptic Armand Puig i Tàrrech Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Time and History: The Use of the Past and the Present in the Book of Revelation Adela Yarbro Collins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Dreams, Visions and the World-to-Come according to the Shepherd of Hermas Joseph Verheyden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Ezra and his Visions: From Jewish Apocalypse to Medieval Tour of Hell Jens Schröter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Views of the World to Come in the Jewish-Christian Sibylline Oracles Olivia Stewart Lester Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Defying the Divine: Jannes and Jambres in Apocalyptic Perspective¹ Marcos Aceituno Donoso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Between Jewish and Egyptian Thinking: The Apocalypse of Sophonias as a Bridge between Two Worlds? Michael Sommer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
From the ‘Gnostic Dialogues’ to the ‘Apostolic Memoirs’: Literary and Historical Settings of the Nag Hammadi Apocalypses Dylan M. Burns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
What is ‘Gnostic’ within Gnostic Apocalypses? Jean-Daniel Dubois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Being in corpore/carne and extra corpus: some interrelations within the Apocalypsis Pauli/Visio Pauli Thomas J. Kraus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
From Historical Apocalypses to Apocalyptic History: Late Antique Historians and Apocalyptic Writings Tobias Nicklas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
Qur’anic Eschatology in its Biblical and Late Ancient Matrix Stephen J. Shoemaker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
The Book of Revelation and Visual Culture Lourdes García Ureña Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
Index of Ancient Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507
Index of Modern Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	537
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	545

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Jewish Studies, Christian Theology, Classic Studies and Religious Studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 550
Keywords: Apocalypticism; Gnosticism; Interpretation of History; Manichaeism.

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Published: February 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110714746

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Published: February 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110713527