Sentences with phrase «in apocalyptic literature»

7.13 in apocalyptic literature, Jewish or Christian.

It may be from Zoroastrian influence that some Jews developed the picture of a cosmic struggle, which is to be found in apocalyptic literature.

The consistent biblical teaching, which becomes most explicit in the apocalyptic literature, is that the future is ultimately God's future.

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.»

The immediate background to Jesus» use of Kingdom of God is certainly the use in the ancient Jewish prayers and in the apocalyptic literature.

In the apocalyptic literature the Kingdom «is forever over the nations» (Ps.

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.

Not exact matches

Ars moriendi literature is in some respects a species of apocalyptic.

Interpreting Apocalyptic Literature by Richard Taylor will lead you in the right direction.

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.

Apocalyptic literature follows the pattern of a vision in which the author receives a call to write, and then describes, with highly cryptic imagery, a series of symbolic events which predict the overthrow of evil and the triumph of righteousness.

4 On the apocalyptic motifs in contemporary literature, see Frank Kermode.

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.

In the August issue of Bible Review magazine, Witherington noted the popular appeal that apocalyptic literature has in unsettling times, «Unfortunately, not all apocalyptic thinking is good apocalyptic thinking, and this is especially true of the so - called dispensational theology that informs these novels,» Witherington wrotIn the August issue of Bible Review magazine, Witherington noted the popular appeal that apocalyptic literature has in unsettling times, «Unfortunately, not all apocalyptic thinking is good apocalyptic thinking, and this is especially true of the so - called dispensational theology that informs these novels,» Witherington wrotin unsettling times, «Unfortunately, not all apocalyptic thinking is good apocalyptic thinking, and this is especially true of the so - called dispensational theology that informs these novels,» Witherington wrote.

In these recent years when Christians have again had to go through «dungeon, fire, and sword» for their faith, the meaning of this apocalyptic (or vision) literature has come alive to many.

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 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.

It is a combination of historical story, with the scene laid in the time of King Nebuchadnezzar, and a new type of writing, the apocalyptic literature.

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.»

It is in this period, and notably in the «apocalyptic» literature beginning with the Book of Daniel, that the idea of personal immortality begins to play a significant part; and this in itself attests a new value attached to the individual.

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.

Historicism and rationalism in their understanding of this apocalyptic literature, have completely lost such a depth of understanding about power.

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.

7.13 exhibits a concept we may speak of a Son of man conception in Jewish apocalyptic, but it would be better to speak of an «image», and, therefore, of the varied use of «Son of man imagery» in Jewish apocalyptic and midrashic literature.

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Although we chose those passages at random, no amount of searching the literature would produce an apocalyptic or rabbinic statement on this theme with such vividness and brevity; in these respects Matt.

7.13 in connection with eschatological expectation does not end with the apocalyptic literature, but continues into the talmudic and midrashic tradition, where it is also used in connection with the Messiah.

«The Transcendent Sovereignty of the Son of Man in Jewish apocalyptic literature», and in the subsequent discussion he assumes that there is a unified and consistent conception which reveals itself in various ways in Dan.

His familiarity with apocalyptic literature (reference to the Assumption of Moses in verse 9, to I Enoch in verses 14 - 15) explains his repeated use of the expression «these» (8, 10, 12, 16, 19).

If we receive several submissions that express the same style or possess the same tone, especially if it falls outside the purview of the genre we are seeking — in this case, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic literature — then some or all of those manuscripts will be rejected.