Seers, sybils, and sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism /
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Seers, sybils, and sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism /

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Main Author: Collins, John Joseph, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; New York : Brill, 1997.
Series:Studia post-Biblica ; v. 54.
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Table of Contents:
  • Before the canon : scriptures in Second Temple Judaism
  • Genre, ideology and social movements in Jewish apocalypticism
  • The place of apocalypticism in the religion of Israel
  • Jewish apocalypticism against its Hellenistic Near Eastern environment
  • Apocalyptic eschatology as the transcendence of death
  • The Kingdom of God in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
  • The Christian adaptation of the apocalyptic genre
  • Nebuchadnezzar and the Kingdom of God : deferred eschatology in the Jewish Diaspora
  • Stirring up the great sea : the religio-historical background of Daniel 7
  • The meaning of the end in the Book of Daniel
  • "The king has become a Jew" : the perspective on the Gentile world in Bel and the Snake
  • The Jewish adaptation of Sibylline oracles
  • The sibyl and the potter : political propaganda in Ptolemaic Egypt
  • A symbol of otherness : circumcision and salvation in the first century
  • The origin of the Qumran Community : a review of the evidence
  • Was the Dead Sea sect an apocalyptic movement?
  • The origin of evil in apocalyptic literature and the Dead Sea scrolls
  • Prophecy and fulfillment in the Qumran scrolls
  • Cosmos and salvation : Jewish wisdom and apocalypticism in the Hellenistic age
  • The sage in the apocalyptic and pseudepigraphic literature
  • The root of immortality : death in the context of Jewish wisdom
  • Wisdom, apocalypticism and the Dead Sea scrolls
  • Wisdom, apocalypticism and generic compatibility.