The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The literary and Phenomenological Context Apoclayptic Prophecy ..........19 The Inheritance of prophecy in apocalypse .......36 Wisdom and Apocalypticism ...........52 Scriptural Interpretation in Early Jewish Apocalypes .....69 Apocalyptic Literature and the Study of Early Jewish Mysticism .........85 Dreams and Vision in Early /Jewish and Early Christian Apocalypses and Apocalypticism ..............104 2. The social function of apocalyptic Literature Social-Scientific Approaches to Apocalyptic Literature ......123 Jewish Apocalyptic Literature as Resistance literature ............145 Apocalypse and Empire ..........163 A postcolonial Reading of Apocalyptic Literature ...............180 3. Literary Features of Apocalyptic Literature The Rhetoric of Jewish Apocalyptic Literature ..........201 Early Christian Apocalyptic Rhetoric .......218 Deconstructing apocalyptic Literalist Allegory ............235 4. Apocalyptic Theology Apocalyptic Determinism ..........255 Apocalyptic Dualism ..........271 Apocalyptic Ethics and Behavior.........295 Apocalypse and Torah in Ancient Judaism ..........312 Apocalypticism and Christian Origins .......326 Descents to Hell and Ascents to Heaven in Apocalyptic Literature .......340 Apocalypses among Gnostics and Manichaeans ........358 The Imagined world of the Apocalypses ..........373 5. Apocalypse now Messianism as a Political Power in Contemporary judaism ........391 Apocalypticism and Radicalism ............407 Apocalypse and Violence ..................422 Apocalypticism in Contemporary Christianity .............441 Apocalypse and Trauma ..........457 Apocalypticism and Popular Culture ..............473