Dreams, Visions, Imaginations : : Jewish, Christian and Gnostic Views of the World to Come / / ed. by Jens Schröter, Tobias Nicklas, Armand Puig i Tàrrech.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Aceituno Donoso, Marcos,; Arcari, Luca,; Burns, Dylan M.,; Collins, John J.,; DiTommaso, Lorenzo,; Dubois, Jean-Daniel,; Frey, Jörg,; García Ureña, Lourdes,; Henze, Matthias,; Kraus, Thomas J.,; Nicklas, Tobias,; Puig i Tàrrech, Armand,; Schröter, Jens,; Shoemaker, Stephen J.,; Sommer, Michael,; Stewart Lester, Olivia,; Verheyden, Joseph,; Yarbro Collins, Adela,
• HerausgeberIn: Nicklas, Tobias,; Puig i Tàrrech, Armand,; Schröter, Jens,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft , 247
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 550 p.)

The contributions in this volume are focused on the historical origins, religious provenance, and social function of ancient Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, including so-called ‘Gnostic’ writings. Although it is disputed whether there was a genre of ‘apocalyptic literature,’ it is obvio...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Where Should We Look for the Roots of Jewish Apocalypticism?
• Apocalyptic Literature and Experiences of Contact with the Other-World in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
• Time and History in Ancient Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Writings
• Apocalyptic Writings in Qumran and the Community’s Idea of History
• This Age and the Age to Come in 2 Baruch
• Jesus and Jewish Apocalyptic
• Time and History: The Use of the Past and the Present in the Book of Revelation
• Dreams, Visions and the World-to-Come according to the Shepherd of Hermas
• Ezra and his Visions: From Jewish Apocalypse to Medieval Tour of Hell
• Views of the World to Come in the Jewish-Christian Sibylline Oracles
• Defying the Divine: Jannes and Jambres in Apocalyptic Perspective¹
• Between Jewish and Egyptian Thinking: The Apocalypse of Sophonias as a Bridge between Two Worlds?
• From the ‘Gnostic Dialogues’ to the ‘Apostolic Memoirs’: Literary and Historical Settings of the Nag Hammadi Apocalypses
• What is ‘Gnostic’ within Gnostic Apocalypses?
• Being in corpore/carne and extra corpus: some interrelations within the Apocalypsis Pauli/Visio Pauli
• From Historical Apocalypses to Apocalyptic History: Late Antique Historians and Apocalyptic Writings
• Qur’anic Eschatology in its Biblical and Late Ancient Matrix
• The Book of Revelation and Visual Culture
• List of Contributors
• Index of Ancient Sources
• Index of Modern Authors
• Index of Subjects