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
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Le Jour de Dieu – Der Tag Gottes
5. Symposium Strasbourg, Tubingen, Uppsala. 11.-13. September 2006 in Uppsala
Volume 245
Paul and the Imperial Authorities at Thessalonica and Rome
A Study in the Conflict of Ideology
Volume 273
Doing Gender – Doing Religion
Fallstudien zur Intersektionalitat im fruhen Judentum, Christentum und Islam
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Reading the First Century
On Reading Josephus and Studying Jewish History of the First Century
Volume 300
Semitisms in Luke’s Greek
A Descriptive Analysis of Lexical and Syntactical Domains of Semitic Language Influence in Luke's Gospel
Volume 401
Epochs and Styles
Selected Writings on the New Testament, Greek Language and Greek Culture in the Post-Classical Era
Volume 179
History and Theology in the Gospels
Seventh International East-West Symposium of New Testament Scholars, Moscow, September 26 to October 1, 2016
Der Exodus im Matthausevangelium
Die Rezeption der Exoduserzahlung in Mt 1-4 vor dem Hintergrund biblischer und fruhjudischer Schriftdiskurse
Was ist Gnosis?
Studien zum fruhen Christentum, zu Marcion und zur kaiserzeitlichen Philosophie
Volume 239
Jesus und die Steuerfrage
Die Zinsgroschenperikope auf dem religiosen und politischen Hintergrund ihrer Zeit mit einer Edition von Pseudo-Hieronymus, De haeresibus Judaeorum
Volume 294
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