Sentences with phrase «of apocalyptic literature»

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.

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

Knowing things like the parallelism of Hebrew poetry, the ancient letter form, and the characteristics of apocalyptic literature would help us receive the books that biblical authors actually wrote.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Apocalyptic literature is just that, a genre of literature.

By the same token, there is a radical difference between the apocalyptic literature cited by Robert Kinkela and the corresponding subgenre of horror films.

This is not to deny Jesus» profound connection with the tradition of Jewish apocalyptic literature.

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

Apocalyptic literature is so full of symbolism that the line between what is literal and what is figurative is often indiscernible.

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.

I say this because the Taylor uses the book of Daniel to provide practical examples of how to read and teach Apocalyptic Literature.

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

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.

The apocalyptic literature represents just such a crisis of narrative vision.

The problem becomes even more complex when we turn to a special genre of literature, apocalyptic writings.

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.»

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 wrote.

There is, of course, an extensive Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature outside of the canon.

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.

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

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.

Unlike many studies of Judaism, the book is organized not by categories of literature (apocalyptic, rabbinic, mystical, etc.), but by the practices associated with daily living, the Sabbath and the Jewish festivals.

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.

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.»

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

«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).

For example The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the earliest surviving works of literature (some of it dating back almost 4000 years), contains references to apocalyptic events.

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.