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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Apocalyptic Literature</title>
    <subTitle>A Reader</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Reddish, Mitchell Glenn</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Hendrickson Publishers</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1995, c1990</dateIssued>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>352 p. ;  23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Preface -- Textual signs -- Introduction -- Part 1. Jewish Apocalyptic Literature. Apocalypses that contain no otherworldly journeys: The animal apocalypse (1 Enoch 85-90), The apocalypse of weeks (1 Enoch 93:1-10, 91:11-17), 4 Ezra (2 Esdras 3-14), 2 Baruch ; Apocalypses that contain otherworldly journeys: The books of watchers (1 Enoch 1-36), The similitudes of Enoch (1 Enoch 37-71), The testament of Levi 2-5, The testament of Abraham ; Related works: The testament of Moses, The community rule (1QS) 3-4, The war scroll (1QM) 1, 15-19, The new Jerusalem (5Q15) -- Part 2. Early Christian Apocalyptic Literature. Apocalypses that contain no otherworldly journeys: The apocalypse of Peter, The shepherd of Hermas: Visions 4 and 5 and Similitudes 3,4 and 6, 5 Ezra 2:42-48 (2 Esdras 2:42-48), The (first) apocalypse of James (v, 3) ; Apocalypses that contain otherworldly journeys: The ascension of Isaiah 6-11, The apocalypse of Paul, The (Gnostic) apocalypse of Paul (v, 2) ; Related works: The apocalypse of Thomas, Sibylline oracles 2:34-55, 149-347, 6 Ezra (2 Esdras 15-16).</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Mitchell Glenn Reddish</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Apocalyptic literature</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BS646  .A635 1990</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">97816197068111619706814</identifier>
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