Sentences with phrase «on apocalyptic literature»

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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.

He then moves on to provide numerous suggestions and guidelines for studying Apocalyptic Literature and teaching it to others (e.g., p 118f).

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

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.»

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.