Die Apokalypse des Johannes ist das rätselhafteste und bilderreichste Buch der Bibel. Sie beflügelte die Imagination vieler Künstler zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Dieser grossartig bebilderte Band erhellt Geschichte, Theologie und Bedeutung der Apokalypse. Der Bogen s…
Introduction. "If I forget you, O Jerusalem" : traumatic memory and the fall of Zion -- I. One apocalyptic melancholia and the trauma of history -- II. Ezekiel : "Desolate among them"--III. Ezra : "Because of my grief I have spoken"--IV. 2 and 3 Baruch : "Cease irritating God" -…
This study addresses the way in which a psychoanalytic model of mourning relates to a set of Jewish apocalypses concerned with the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple.
This study addresses the way in which a psychoanalytic model of mourning relates to a set of Jewish apocalypses concerned with the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple. These texts respond to the traumatic symbolic loss of Zion and attempt to heal it through the apocalyptic n…
Virtually all scholars agree that apocalyptic and millenarianism formed at least part of the matrix of the culture in first-century Jewish Palestine, but there is a sharp disagreement concerning the extent to which Jesus shared apocalyptic and millenarian beliefs. Although there…
This book presents the first comprehensive interpretation of the Paraphrase of Shem, Codex VII,1 in the Coptic Nag Hammadi Library. The lenghty introduction discusses the literary genre of the treatise, its plan and system, its situation among the Gnostic systems, its provenance…
Books and writing, according to Jacques Derrida, are always concerned with questions of life and death. Nowhere is this more true than regarding the heavenly book motif, which plays an important role in early Judeo-Christian literature, and particularly in apocalypses. This book…
The Roman destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 was a watershed event in the religious, political, and social life of first-century Jews. This book explores the reaction to this event found in Jewish apocalypses and related literature preserved among the Pseudepigrapha (4 Ezra, 2 …
This book builds on scholarship on genre to establish a clear pattern among the ways Jubilees resembles and differs from other apocalypses.
Biographical note: Daphna V. Arbel, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Andrei A. Orlov, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
