Breaking with common views on Jewish proto-apocalyptic literature, in a postmodern manner, this work approaches one particular proto-apocalyptic text, Isaiah 24-27, the so-called "Isaiah Apocalypse", intertextually. This reading finds that the Isaiah Apocalypse redeploys and con…
"Breaking with common views on Jewish proto-apocalyptic literature, in a postmodern manner, this work intertextually approaches one particular proto-apocalyptic text, Isaiah 24-27, the so-called 'Isaiah Apocalypse'. This reading finds that the Isaiah Apocalypse redeploys and con…
"This volume of essays by Christopher Rowland concerns the nature of apocalypticism and its reception history. While the eschatological character predominates in modern biblical scholarship, the author argues for a focus rather on the revelatory form of apocalyptic texts. A cons…
"This volume of essays by Christopher Rowland concerns the nature of apocalypticism and its reception history. While the eschatological character predominates in modern biblical scholarship, the author argues for a focus rather on the revelatory form of apocalyptic texts. A cons…
Although nearly forgotten today, the prophetic writing of Wilhelm Friess was the most popular work of its kind in Germany in the second half of the sixteenth century. Frans Fraet was executed for printing a prognostication by Willem de Vriese, but this prognostication was though…