Visionaries and their Apocalypses /

Visionaries and their Apocalypses / edited with an introduction by Paul D. Hanson. - Philadelphia : Fortress Press, 1983. - xiii, 162 p. ; 22 cm. - Issues in religion and theology ; 2 .

Bibliographic references (p. 156-159) and indexes

What is apocalyptic? / Klaus Koch -- Old Testament apocalyptic reexamined / Paul D. Hanson -- Apocalyptic eschatology as the transcendence of death / John J. Collins -- New light on the third century / Michael Stone -- Enoch and apocalyptic origins / Michael Stone -- Wisdom and apocalyptic / Jonathan Z. Smith -- Apocalytic Christianity / Norman Perrin -- The attainment of millennial bliss through myth : the Book of Revelation / John G. Gager.

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Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism.

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