TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collins, John J
AU  - Collins,John J
TI  - The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature
SN  - 9780199856497
U1  - BC96 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Apocalyptic Literature
N1  - 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
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