Full Description
This book presents a synthesis of Gerbern Oegema's extensive research on apocalypticism and Biblical interpretation. Oegema works with the hypothesis that apocalypticism was a major current and mindset from the beginning of the Second Temple period, through Enochic literature, the Qumran Scrolls and the New Testament into Late Antiquity, shaping many inner-Jewish traditions and those emerging from Early Judaism, namely the Early Church and Rabbinic Judaism. The topics and texts dealt with range from prophecy and apocalypticism in Second Temple Judaism, messianic expectations in the Qumran writings, the apocalyptic interpretation of the Patriarchs in 4QPatriarchal Blessings (4Q252), the 'Coming of the Righteous One' in 1 Enoch, Qumran and the New Testament, to the historical Jesus between Early Judaism and Early Christianity.
Contents
I. Introduction: Apocalypticism; Prophecy and Apocalypticism in Second Temple Judaism; II. Early Judaism; Messianic Expectations in the Qumran Writings: Trajectories in their Development; The Apocalyptic Interpretation of the Patriarchs in 4QPatriarchal Blessings (4Q252); The 'Coming of the Righteous One' in 1 Enoch, Qumran and the New Testament. III. The Historical Jesus; The Historical Jesus between Early Judaism and Early Christianity; Jesus' Prophetic and Apocalyptic Interpretation of Scripture; Jesus and His Second Coming: Between Messianism and Eschatology; IV. The Apostle Paul; The Christological Interpretation of the Bible in the Letters of Paul; Paulus and the Development of Early Christian Eschatology; V. Reception History; Canon and Apocalypticism. The Influence of the Revelation of John on the Canonisation of the Christian Bible; Back to the Future in the Early Church: The Use of the Book of Daniel in Early Patristic Eschatology; The Heritage of Jewish Apocalypticism in Rabbinic and Early Medieval Judaism.
