Seers, sybils, and sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
by John J. Collins.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1997.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 438 pages ;
Dimensions
25 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism,
Volume Designation
v. 54
ISSN of Series
1384-1261 ;
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Previously published articles from various sources, 1974-1996.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
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TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Bible., Daniel-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dead Sea scrolls.
Oracula Sibyllina.
Bible., Daniel-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dead Sea scrolls.
Oracula Sibyllina.
Bible., A.T.-- Canon.
Bible., A.T., Daniel-- Critique, interprétation, etc.
Manuscrits de la mer Morte-- Critique, interprétation, etc.
Oracles sibyllins.
Bible., A.T.-- Critique, interprétation, etc.
Bible., Daniel.
Dead Sea scrolls.
Mer Morte, Manuscrits de la-- Critique, interprétation, etc.
Oracula Sibyllina.
Oracula Sibyllina.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Apocalyptic literature-- History and criticism.
Sibyls.
Wisdom literature-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Judaïsme-- Doctrines.
Littérature apocalyptique-- Histoire et critique.
Littérature religieuse juive-- Histoire et critique.
Littérature sapientiale-- Critique, interprétation, etc.
Oracles sibyllins.
Sibylles.
Apocalyptic literature-- History and criticism.
Apocalyptic literature.
Apocalyptiek.
Apokalyptik
Eschatologie-- Judaïsme.
Frühjudentum
Hellenistisch-jüdische Literatur
Jodendom.
Judaïsme-- Histoire-- 586 av. J.-C.-0210 (période post-exilique)
Littérature apocalyptique.
Littérature sapientiale-- Histoire et critique.
Sibylles.
Sibyls.
Wisdom literature-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.