While apocalyptic symbolism played a significant role in the shaping of Islamic societies, both the nature of this symbolism and the ways in which these apocalypses were employed in the construction of authority remain understudied. After a brief introduction to Qur'ānic apocaly…
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This thesis explores the locust imagery in the book of Joel to suggest a more helpful way to classify the text. Scholars classify Joel as either prophetic, proto-apocalyptic, or apocalyptic literature based on different approaches to the text. This thesis will argue that Joel sh…
Although 4 Ezra is an apocalypse, the first half of the book is comprised of three dialogues, a form usually associated with wisdom literature. The present study argues that these dialogues are meant to represent a debate between two schools of Jewish wisdom over questions of th…
This thesis investigates the conceptual use of discernment in First Corinthians. As a motif, discernment spans many issues in the epistle while forming a key element in Paul’s understanding of the eschatological people of God in Christ and his expectations for them to emerge thr…
One of the most lively and enduring debates in New Testament studies is the question of the significance of ‘apocalyptic' thought in Paul. This has recently given birth to a group of scholars, with a common theological genealogy, who share a concern to emphasise the ‘apocalyptic…
The Book of Jubilees uses the genre "apocalypse" to express a worldview that differs significantly from the cluster of ideas typically expressed by contemporary apocalypses. Jubilees has often been viewed as a borderline or ambiguous case among apocalypses. When viewed with the …
The relationship between homiletics and rhetoric is well founded and since Augustine has been the source place for reflection on the proclamation of the word of God for the people of God. More recently, the renewal of preaching in the middle of the twentieth century produced a "…
The nature of the problem addressed is the lack of a thorough discussion of the relationship of the exaltation of Christ in Hebrews to the assortment of ideas and images present in Jewish apocalyptic literature which the epistle seems to echo. This study begins with a historical…
The Melchizedek Apocalypse is a Coptic text, written in the late second or early third century CE, by a Sethian gnostic author, and discovered near Nag Hammadi in Egypt. Only one extant copy of the document has survived, preserved in the translation of the original Greek, in Cod…
Examining allusions to Isaiah in the book of Daniel historical-critically and poetically, this work demonstrates that the allusions contribute uniquely to the narrative's theological representation of the exilic and post-exilic rule of the nations over the people Israel. Daniel …
Christianity in the late Middle Ages focused largely on a concern for the afterlife and the need for repentance, which was connected to the belief that Christ's Second Coming was near. As a result, late medieval writings expressed a clear concern for the state of one's soul when…
Most of the prophetic books contain three types of oracles: oracles of judgment against Israel, oracles against foreign nations (OAN), and oracles of salvation for Israel. Scholarly study of the OAN has generally been overshadowed by research on the oracles of judgment and salva…
Zechariah 9–14 sheds additional light to the eschatological relevance of the sanctuary by emphasizing God’s presence among humankind. The sanctuary motif receives a vertical dimension by focusing on God’s original Sanctuary.
This dissertation investigates how people's beliefs formed the shape of their understandings of the world and how transformations in the material world changed people's perception over time from the Arab invasion of Iran in the seventh century to the Mongol invasion of Iran in t…