The Apocalypse and Apocalyptic Topics
Collected Essays II
edited by Adela Yarbro Collins
Hardback (Published)
(November 2024)
ISBN: 9783161636691
9.09 x 6.06 inches
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In this collection of essays, Adela Yarbro-Collins expertly illustrates a wide variety of scholarly methods for interpreting apocalypticism. These include history-of-religion, social-historical, and theological approaches as well as genre studies and rhetorical criticism, especially the device of vivid description (ekphrasis).
In this volume of collected essays, Adela Yarbro Collins provides a wide-reaching insight into her work on the Apocalypse that spanned her professional career from 1973 to 2021. Emphasizing the variety in form and content of the early and late antique Christian apocalypses within the genre, she focusses on the apocalyptic Son of Man sayings in the Synoptic Gospels and raises questions about the impact of Revelation on its ancient and modern audiences regarding ethical norms and the problem of violence. Also examined in detail are a range of themes in the Apocalypse, feminine symbolism, the role of the city of Pergamon in the work, its use of vivid description (ekphrasis), its millennial themes, portraits of rulers, and time and history, especially the author’s contemporary history. The collection is rounded off with a discussion of the challenge of apocalypticism to the project of creating a New Testament theology.
- Edited by Adela Yarbro Collins
Other Titles in this Series
Theologie des Lebens bei Paulus und Johannes
Ein theologisch-konzeptioneller Vergleich des Zusammenhangs von Glaube und Leben auf dem Hintergrund ihrer Glaubenssummarien
Volume 389
The Holy Spirit and the Church according to the New Testament
Sixth International East-West Symposium of New Testament Scholars, Belgrade, August 25 to 31, 2013
Divine Kingdom and Kingdoms of Men / Gottesreich und Reiche der Menschen
Studies on the Theology of the Septuagint Volume II / Studien zur Theologie der Septuaginta Band II
Volume 432
Leiblich vermitteltes Leben
Vorstellungen vom Uberwinden des Todes und vom Auferstehen im fruhen Christentum
Volume 501
Kontexte des Johannesevangeliums
Das vierte Evangelium in religions- und traditionsgeschichtlicher Perspektive
Reading the First Century
On Reading Josephus and Studying Jewish History of the First Century
Volume 300
The Eucharist – Its Origins and Contexts
Sacred Meal, Communal Meal, Table Fellowship in Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity. Volume I-III
Volume 376
Der eine Gott, der durch alle ist
Epheser 4,6 im Kontext antiker Diskurse uber Gott und die Welt
Volume 445
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