01527nam a2200169Ia 4500 230916s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97815924401221592440126 eng BS646 .R883 2002 Rowland, Christopher The Open Heaven : A Study of Apocalyptic in Judaism and Early Christianity / Christopher Rowland Eugene, Or. : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2002 xiii, 562 p. ; 23 cm. What is apocalyptic?: Knowledge of the divine mysteries through revelation -- Apocalyptic and eschatology -- Apocalypse and apocalyptic -- The content of the heavenly mysteries: What is above: The mysteries of God, the angels, and astronomy -- What is below: Man and his world -- What had happened previously: The interest in past history in apocalyptic -- What is to come -- Towards an understanding of the origins of apocalyptic and the dates of the apocalypses: A survey of recent study on the origins of apocalyptic -- An attempt to elucidate the origins of apocalyptic visions -- Dating the apocalypses -- The esoteric tradition in early rabbinic Judaism: The meditation of Rabban Johanan Ben Zakkai and his circle on the chariot-chapter -- The problems posed by the esoteric tradition in the time of Rabbi Akiba -- Apocalyptic in early Christianity: Reports of visions in early Christian literature to AD 200 -- Revelation -- Conclusion. Apocalyptic literature.Rabbinical literature History and criticism. 0 0 8.11 0 0 GETS GETS GEN 2023-09-20 0 BS646 .R883 2002 00031149 2023-09-20 00:00:00 2023-09-20 BK 47530 47530