The fate of the dead : studies on the Jewish and Christian apocalypses /

The fate of the dead : studies on the Jewish and Christian apocalypses /

These studies focus on personal eschatology in the Jewish and early Christian apocalypses. The apocalyptic tradition from its Jewish origins until the early middle ages is studied as a continuous literary tradition, in which both continuity of motifs and important changes in understanding of life af...

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Main Author: Bauckham, Richard.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998.

Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements 93.
Novum Testamentum Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004264557.

Subjects:

Apocalyptic literature > History and criticism.
Eschatology > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Future life > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Eschatology, Jewish > History of doctrines.
Future life > Judaism > History of doctrines.

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Call Number: BL501 .B38 1998

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Descents to the Underworld
  • Early Jewish Visions of Hell
  • Visiting the Places of the Dead in the Extra-Canonical Apocalypses
  • The Rich Man and Lazarus: The Parable and the Parallels
  • The Tongue Set on Fire by Hell (James 3:6)
  • The Conflict of Justice and Mercy: Attitudes to the Damned in Apocalyptic Literature
  • Augustine, the 'compassionate' Christians, and the Apocalypse of Peter
  • The Apocalypse of Peter: A Jewish Christian Apocalypse from the time of Bar Kokhba
  • A Quotation from 4Q second Ezekiel in the Apocalypse of Peter
  • Resurrection as Giving Back the Dead
  • 2 Peter and the Apocalypse of Peter
  • The Apocalypse of the Seven Heavens: The Latin Version
  • The Four Apocalypses of the Virgin Mary
  • The Ascension of Isaiah: Genre, Unity and Date
  • Index of Biblical References.