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The Fate of the Dead. Studies on the Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 93)

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This text presents a collection of studies which 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 after death can be charted. As well as better-known apocalypses, much attention is given to those neglected apocalypses which portray human destiny after death in detail, such as the "Apocalypse of Peter", the "Apocalypse of the Seven Heavens", the later apocalypses of Ezra, and the four apocalypses of the Virgin Mary. Relationships with Greco-Roman eschatology are explored, and several chapters show how specific New Testament texts are illuminated by close knowledge of this tradition of ideas and images of the hereafter.
Request Code : ZLIBIO734027
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Year:
1998
Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
441
ISBN 10:
9004112030
ISBN 13:
9789004112032
ISBN:
9004112030,9789004112032
Series:
Supplements to Novum Testamentum (NT.S) 93

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