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    <title>Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature</title>
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    <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2014</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xiii, 546 p.  ;  26 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>What is apocalyptic literature? / John J. Collins -- Apocalyptic prophecy / Stephen L. Cook -- The inheritance of prophecy in apocalypse / Hindy Najman -- Wisdom and apocalypticism / Matthew Goff -- Scriptural interpretation in early Jewish apocalypses / Alex P. Jassen -- Apocalyptic literature and the study of early Jewish mysticism / Raanan Boustan, Patrick G. McCullough -- Dreams and visions in early Jewish and early Christian apocalypses and apocalypticism / Frances Flannery -- Social-scientific approaches to apocalyptic literature / Philip F. Esler -- Jewish apocalyptic literature as resistance literature / Anathea Portier-Young -- Apocalypse and empire / Steven J. Friesen -- A postcolonial reading of apocalyptic literature / Daniel L. Smith-Christopher -- The rhetoric of Jewish apocalyptic literature / Carol A. Newsom -- Early Christian apocalyptic rhetoric / Greg Carey -- Deconstructing apocalyptic literalist allegory / Erin Runions -- Apocalyptic determinism / Mladen Popovic -- Apocalyptic dualism / Jörg Frey -- Apocalyptic ethics and behavior / Dale C. Allison, Jr. -- Apocalypse and Torah in ancient Judaism / Matthias Henze -- Apocalypticism and Christian origins / Adela Yarbro Collins -- Descents to Hell and ascents to Heaven in apocalyptic literature / Jan N. Bremmer -- Apocalypses among Gnostics and Manichaeans / Dylan M. Burns -- The imagined world of the apocalypses / Stefan Beyerle -- Messianism as a political power in contemporary Judaism / Motti Inbari -- Apocalypticism and radicalism / Christopher Rowland -- Apocalypse and violence / Catherine Wessinger -- Apocalypticism in contemporary Christianity / Amy Johnson Frykholm -- Apocalypse and trauma / Dereck Daschke -- Apocalypticism and popular culture / Lorenzo DiTommaso.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by John J. Collins</note>
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    <topic>Apocalyptic literature</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BS646  .O94 2014</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780199856497 </identifier>
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