Jewish apocalyptic and its history /
This translation of L''apocalittica giudaica e la sua storia makes Professor Sacchi''s innovative thesis on Jewish apocalyptic available to a wider, English-reading audience. Sacchi argues that the term ''apocalyptic'' is a modern invention, deriving from the...
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Sheffield :
Sheffield Academic Press,
[1996]
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| ISBN: | 9780567149381 0567149382 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. The Quest for the Historical Apocalyptic
- 1. The book of the Watchers and apocalyptic
- 2. Cosmic order and otherworldly perspectives in the post-exilic period : the problem of evil and the origin of apocalyptic
- 3. Towards a history of apocalyptic
- 4. The apocalyptic of the fist century : sin and judgment
- Part II. Some Themes of the Apocalyptic Current Against the Background of Jewish Thought
- 5. The two calendars of the Book of Astronomy
- 6. Ethiopic Enoch 91.15 and the problem of mediation
- 7. Missianism and apocalyptic
- 8. Knowledge among the Jews from Amos to the Essenes
- 9. Historicizing and revelation at the origins of Judaism
- 10. The devil in Jewish traditions of the Second Temple Period (C. 500 BCE-100 CE
- 11. Historical introduction to the Book of the Secrets of Enoch (Slavonic Enoch)