The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature

Herausgeber: McAllister, Colin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature has captivated theologians, writers, artists, and the general public for centuries, and has had a profound influence on world history since its initial production by persecuted Jews during the second century BCE. This Companion brings together leading experts for a comprehensive overview of the subject.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Religion
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 153mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9781108436892
• ISBN-10: 1108436897
• Artikelnr.: 58306039

Inhaltsangabe

1. Through a glass darkly: time, the end, and the essence of apocalyptica
Colin McAllister; 2. Apocalpyticism as a worldview in ancient Judaism and
Christianity John J. Collins; 3. Introduction to the Book of Revelation Ian
Paul; 4. The gnostic apocalypses Dylan M. Burns; 5. Exegetic the apocalypse
with the Donatist communion Jesse A. Hoover; 6. Tests of faith, rebirth out
of corruption or endless cycles of regeneration: experiments in the
restoration of the late Roman Empire Brian Duvick; 7. Latin reception of
the apocalypse in the early Middle Ages E. Ann Matter; 8. Exegesis of the
Apocalypse in the tenth century Francis X. Gumerlock; 9. The end of the
world at the ends of the Earth: apocalyptic thought in medieval Ireland
John Carey; 10. Byzantine apocalyptic literature András Kraft; 11. Joachim
of Fiore and the apocalyptic revival of the twelfth century Brett Edward
Whalen; 12. Apocalpytic sensibility in renaissance Europe Ian Boxall; 13.
'Pride and vanity of the imagination, that disdains to follow this world's
fashion': apocalypticism in the age of reason Christopher Rowland; 14. The
formation of antichrist in medieval western Christian thought Kevin L.
Hughes; 15. From Dabiq to Jerusalem: trajectories of contemporary
Salafi-Jihadi apocalypticism David Cook; 16. American evangelicals and the
apocalypse Daniel G. Hummel; 17. Apocalypticism in the contemporary world
Lorenzo DiTommaso.