It was Revelation that taught scholars to discern a family resemblance among a whole class of early Jewish and Christian writings, which we now call “apocalypses.”[10] An apocalypse can be defined as “a form of literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation or transcendent reality is given by an angel or otherworldly being to a human recipient. Usually the revelation unveils a supernatural world and points to salvation at the end of time.”[11]
