Sentences with phrase «as apocalyptic literature»

Reading each reference, it is clear that Calvin treated it as apocalyptic literature, written for the comfort of the suffering, persecuted church in the first century and that he found in it notes of comfort for every age.

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As time went on and the concept developed, all kinds of pictures and ideas were associated with it, especially in the apocalyptic literature: the transformation of the earth, the end of history, the resurrection of the dead, and many others.

A significant element in the background to the Gospel accounts of Jesus is the tradition of apocalyptic literature in which God has come to be viewed as temporarily absent from the current flow of history.

As the secular hope of a golden age had its prophecies and oracles, so the Judaism of this period produced that curious literature known as «apocalyptic.&raquAs the secular hope of a golden age had its prophecies and oracles, so the Judaism of this period produced that curious literature known as «apocalyptic.&raquas «apocalyptic.»

We didn't understand that when we read ancient Hebrew prose poems (like Genesis 1), wisdom literature (like Proverbs), or apocalyptic literature (like Revelation) as if they were science textbooks, we were actually obscuring their meaning.»

A now classical definition of this term apocalyptic (literally, «uncovered») properly sees the transition from prophetic to apocalyptic literature as really scarcely traceable.

As a piece of apocalyptic literature it takes its place naturally in the series which begins with the Book of Daniel, and includes such works as the Book of Enoch, the Assumption of Moses, the Apocalypse of Baruch, and 2 EsdraAs a piece of apocalyptic literature it takes its place naturally in the series which begins with the Book of Daniel, and includes such works as the Book of Enoch, the Assumption of Moses, the Apocalypse of Baruch, and 2 Esdraas the Book of Enoch, the Assumption of Moses, the Apocalypse of Baruch, and 2 Esdras.

We often think of the Revelation as a quite unique book with nothing else like it; but it is of the first importance to remember that in fact the Revelation is the one representative in the NT of a type of literature called apocalyptic literature which was very common between the Testaments and in NT times.

For the same reason, we can understand how prophecy and wisdom could converge in apocalyptic literature where, as is well known, the notion of a revelation of the divine secrets is applied to «the last days.»

This concentration on the idea of revelation as God's plan is all the more insistent in what apocalyptic literature which was subsequently grafted on to the prophetic trunk, calls «apocalypse» — i.e., revelation in the strict sense of the word — the unveiling of God's plans concerning the «last days.»

The imperial powers of Babylon, Egypt, Assyria, Greece and Rome are regarded as powers of darkness and chaos in the Biblical literature, especially in the Apocalyptic writings.

The apocalyptic literature should be regarded as the story of politically oppressed people about the dominating powers.

Since the 1890s New Testament scholars have been rediscovering the importance of apocalyptic literature among Jews and Christians in the ancient world, represented in the books referred to as Apocalypses, which offer visions, revelations of the future, and other divine mysteries.

In order to make our meaning clear, and in view of the intrinsic importance of this subject, we shall offer an analysis of the use of «Son of man imagery» in Jewish apocalyptic and midrashic literature as we see it.

We're referring to «Sulfurings: Tales from Sodom & Gomorrah» as apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic literature for what we hope are obvious reasons.