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The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
This second edition of John J. Collins's widely praised study of Jewish apocalyptic literature represents a complete updating and rewriting of the original work. Especially noteworthy is the chapter on the Dead Sea Scrolls, which now takes into account all of the recently published texts. Other chapters discuss apocalypse as a literary genre, explore the phenomenon and fun...more
Paperback, 337 pages
Published
March 26th 1998
by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
(first published 1984)
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As an introduction to apocalyptic literature, Collins's book is indispensable. It provides excellent discussions of generic considerations, previous scholarship, emerging conceptions, and the main issues related to apocalypses in early Jewish and Christian traditions.
Many of the conceptions underlying Collins's book (esp. in the first chapter on the "Apocalyptic Genre") are directly influenced by his work with the collaborative team for Semeia 14 (Apocalypse: The Morphology of a Genre, 1979). Th...more
Many of the conceptions underlying Collins's book (esp. in the first chapter on the "Apocalyptic Genre") are directly influenced by his work with the collaborative team for Semeia 14 (Apocalypse: The Morphology of a Genre, 1979). Th...more
This is a excellent review of Jewish Apocalyptic literature from 300 BCE to 200 CE. It covers all the major Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, the primary Dead Sea Scrolls, Daniel, and Revelation. The introduction to the genre at the beginning is worth the price of the book although it is duplicative of the introduction in Collins' commentary on Daniel in the Forms of Old Testament Literature series. Collins' perspective on the historical Jesus may raise some hackles on the right and the left, but we...more
A helpful introduction to Jewish apocalyptic literature, up through the end of the first century. Most of the book tracks the Jewish apocalyptic material in chronological order, focusing on the key elements of each writing, their historical context, and the way they compare with the other apocalyptic literature he tracks in the book.
Collins includes a chapter on Christian apocalyptic to close the book, which serves as an excellent point of comparison and contrast with the Jewish material. In par...more
Collins includes a chapter on Christian apocalyptic to close the book, which serves as an excellent point of comparison and contrast with the Jewish material. In par...more
Excellent introduction to Jewish apocalyptic covering texts from early Enoch literature, Daniel, Qumran, and Christianity. Not only is the commentary erudite but the prose reads extremely well and does not bore. Great addition to any biblical studies library.
Heavy but good.
An interesting and in depth volume on apocalyptic. This is not in the popular format of normal apocalyptic. It provokes many questions and thoughts and gives a broad overview of scholarship from many different perspectives.
Really the classic introduction to this genre of literature.
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John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament at Yale Divinity School. A native of Ireland, he has a doctorate from Harvard University, and earlier taught at the University of Chicago, and the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely on the subjects of apocalypticism, wisdom, Hellenistic Judaism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls and served as president of both the Catholic Biblical Associ
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