Seers, sybils and sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism / by John J. Collins
- Author
- Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946-
- Published
- Leiden ; New York : Brill, 1997.
- Physical Description
- xi, 438 pages ; 25 cm.
- Series
- Contents
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9004107525
- Note
- Reprints of articles from various sources published 1974-1996.
"These essays have been edited to standardize the style. Some errors have been corrected and some references have been updated, but there has been no systematic revision. The opening essay, 'Before the canon,' has been expanded to include more complete documentation than was included in the previously published essay."--P. xi. - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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