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The Heritage of Jewish Apocalypticism in Late Antique and Early Medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Vehicles of Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Textual Culture, Brepols, Turnhout, (2011)
Abstract
Finally, we move from the shifting representations of the universal past to a genre that purports to disclose the eschatological future: apocalyptic literature. Best known are the Book of Daniel and the Apocalypse of John that were integrated into the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament respectively. But there are also many non-canonical texts that claim to transmit knowledge beyond human apprehension that God revealed to prominent biblical figures. While the basic features of this genre were shaped in Jewish circles of the Second Temple period, Gerbern S. Oegema, in ‘The Heritage of Jewish Apocalypticism in Late Antique and Early Medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam', traces its manifold transformations from antiquity to the Middle Ages, beginning with Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity and ending with the genre's reinterpretation in classical Islam. We can thus observe the flexibility of a religious pattern that was adopted and transformed across a wide range of chronological, linguistic, and religious boundaries. Source: Editors
