HauptbeschreibungIn his work, Simon J. Joseph proposes a new working model for understanding the Jewish ethnicity, community, provenance, and compositional traits in Q - the earliest and most reliable source for the Palestinian Jewish Jesus movement. He critically compares the m…
Is Q a Galilean text representing a non-messianic and non-apocalyptic Galilean branch of the early Jesus movement? Simon J. Joseph proposes a new working model for understanding the Jewish ethnicity, community, provenance, and compositional traits in Q - the earliest and most re…
In the middle of the fourteenth century, the Franciscan friar John of Rupescissa sent a dramatic warning to his followers: the end times were coming; the apocalypse was near. Rupescissa's teachings were unique in his era. He claimed that knowledge of the natural world, and alche…
"This monograph examines for the first time the momentous biblical theme of the peoples' pilgrimage to Zion in the end of days. The study includes an exegesis of the texts, which extend from the second to the final chapter of the Book of Isaiah, along with an extensive theologic…
"This monograph examines for the first time the momentous biblical theme of the peoples' pilgrimage to Zion in the end of days. The study includes an exegesis of the texts, which extend from the second to the final chapter of the Book of Isaiah, along with an extensive theologic…
"Shows how Milton, Hobbes, and other seventeenth-century English writers used expectation of the world's end to invent new and radical ideas of the nation"--
Gregory of Tours was a bishop of late antiquity who was famously devoted to promoting the efficacy of saintly powers. In his writings, both historical and hagiographical, Gregory depicted the saints and reprobates of his age. This book analyses Gregory's writings about death and…
