(Anti-)Apocalypticism Throughout Antiquity

Negotiating Apocalyptic Thinking in the Ancient World

Book cover: (Anti-)Apocalypticism Throughout Antiquity

Extent: 480 pages

Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Subjects: Biblical Studies

Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Language: English

Hardback (Forthcoming)

(January 2027)

ISBN: 9783162003294

6.1 x 9.13 inches

Price: $248.00

Apocalypticism is inherently a discursive category. The contributors to this volume examine how apocalyptic ideas were negotiated, reshaped, problematized, and adapted across ancient cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean. They situate these ideas within their surrounding traditions, opening a multifaceted historical and intellectual landscape.


Apocalypticism is inherently a discursive category. Across antiquity and its various cultures, apocalyptic ideas were consistently negotiated, reshaped, problematised, and adapted. They engage with their surrounding traditions and form a dynamic and multifaceted network extending far beyond those works that fall into the narrower taxonomy of apocalypses. Spanning from the Persian period to late antiquity, and ranging across the Classical World, ancient Judaism and Christianity, the wider Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, and Ethiopia, this volume provides a comprehensive resituation of apocalyptic thinking in the ancient world.