Krise und Hoffnung
Studien zur neutestamentlichen Apokalyptik. Kleine Schriften V
By (author) Jörg Frey Edited by Magnus Rabel
Hardback (Forthcoming)
(January 2027)
ISBN: 9783162010674
6.1 x 9.13 inches
Price: $300.00
Thirty studies on New Testament apocalypticism, its origins, contexts, and aims: on the Apocalypse of John, the Epistle of Jude, and Second Peter. Jörg Frey shows why these texts proved so influential, how they both provoked crises and helped their readers endure them, and how their imagery continues to inspire hope today.
The volume brings together thirty studies on the apocalypticism of ancient Judaism and the New Testament, eighteen in German and twelve in English. Six appear here for the first time or in advance of their first printing; the others appeared between 1999 and 2025 and have been revised for reprinting. The guiding thesis argues against a habit of modern theology that treats apocalypticism as an alien substrate to be detached from a Christian core or demythologized: the apocalyptic form of thought carries New Testament eschatology and cannot be separated from it. Frey takes the reverse side just as seriously, the use of the same texts to justify domination and violence down to the present.
Frey joins philological and religious-historical work on the sources, on the Enochic writings, Daniel, Fourth Ezra, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint, with the interpretation of New Testament writings and with the question of their reception history. The subject extends from Hellenistic and Roman Judaea to the province of Asia in the imperial period, from the beginnings of apocalypticism in the third century BCE to the second century CE, and, in its reception, to the rhetoric of crisis in the present.
Four fields stand out: apocalypticism as a means of coping with crisis in ancient Judaism, the Book of Revelation with its imagery and its relation to the Roman imperial cult, Jude and Second Peter as borderline cases of the canon, and the ethics of apocalyptic speech. The volume brings together work that is otherwise hard to obtain and makes a research path visible that has accompanied the reassessment of apocalypticism since the Dead Sea discoveries.
Vorwort
Einleitung
1. Zugänge zur Apokalyptik. Zwischen Neuem Testament und heutiger Rezeption
I. Apokalyptik und Zeitdeutung im Horizont der Gegenwart
2. Was ist Zeit - und was ist Ewigkeit? Interdisziplinäre und biblisch-theologische Perspektiven
3. Biblische Hoffnung angesichts ‚apokalyptischer' Zeitwahrnehmung
4. Vom Sinn der Apokalyptik, ihrem Gebrauch und ihrem Missbrauch. Biblisch-theologische Perspektiven im Horizont aktueller Krisen
II. Apokalyptik im antiken Judentum und im Neuen Testament
5. Apokalyptik als Krisenbewältigung
6. The Universal Rule of God the Pantocrator in Enoch, Qumran, the Septuagint, and Revelation
7. Dualistische Weltdeutungen im antiken Judentum und in ausgewählten neutestamentlichen Texten
8. Paul, Apocalypticism, and the Understanding of Time
9. Leben und Glauben im Horizont des Endes. Formen und Funktionen apokalyptischer Zeitwahrnehmung im antiken Judentum und im Neuen Testament
III. Zur Johannesapokalypse
10. Das Corpus Johanneum und die Apokalypse des Johannes. Die Johanneslegende, die Probleme der johanneischen Verfasserschaft und die Frage der Pseudonymität der Apokalypse
11. Die Bildersprache der Johannesapokalypse
12. Die Himmelskönigin, die Sonnenfrau und die Johannesapokalypse. Zum mythologischen Hintergrund und zur textpragmatischen Funktion eines wirkmächtigen Bildmotivs
13. The Relevance of the Roman Imperial Cult for the Book of Revelation. Exegetical and Hermeneutical Reflections on the Relation Between the Seven Letters and the Visionary Main Part of the Book
14. The Throne Vision of Revelation 4 within the Context of Enochic and Merkavah Texts
15. Das apokalyptische Millennium. Zu Herkunft, Sinn und Wirkung der Millenniumsvorstellung in Apk 20,4-6
16. God's Dwelling on Earth. 'Shekhina-Theology' in Revelation 21 and in the Johannine Prologue
17. Was erwartet die Johannesapokalypse, und worin liegt ihre theologische Bedeutung?
IV. Zur Apokalyptik im Judasbrief und im zweiten Petrusbrief
18. Der Judasbrief zwischen Judentum und Hellenismus
19. Retter, Gott und Morgenstern. Metaphorik und Christologie im zweiten Petrusbrief
20. Judgment on the Ungodly and the Parousia of Christ. Eschatology in Jude and 2 Peter
21. Autorfiktion und Gegnerbild im Judasbrief und im zweiten Petrusbrief
22. Disparagement as Argument. The Polemical Use of Moral Language in Second Peter
23. Between Holy Tradition and Christian Virtues? The Use of πίστις / πιστεύειν in Jude and 2 Peter
24. Fire and Water? Apocalyptic Imagination and Hellenistic Worldview in 2 Peter
25. Hermeneutical Problems Posed by Second Peter
26. Second Peter in New Perspective
27. Von der petrinischen Schule zum petrinischen Diskurs. Der zweite Petrusbrief und seine literarischen Bezüge
28. Das "Geist-Schweigen" im zweiten Petrusbrief
29. "A Thousand Years Like One Day" (2 Pet 3:8). The Negotiation of Apocalyptic Expectation in 2 Peter
30. Ethische Probleme der Apokalyptik-Rezeption im Judasbrief und im zweiten Petrusbrief
- By (author) Jörg Frey
- Edited by Magnus Rabel
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