Revelations of Ideology: Apocalyptic Class Politics in Early Roman Palestine.

• Superior document: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; Volume 189
• Author: Anthony Keddie
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston: : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 189.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page /; Dedication /; Acknowledgements /; Tables /; Author’s Note /; Abbreviations /; Introduction /; Apocalyptic Criticism /; The Fall of Class and Rise of Empire: Troubling Metanarratives /; Apocalyptic Class Politics: A Theoretical Intervention /; Apocalyptic Class Politics /; Councils and Elites in the Psalms of Solomon /; The Ill-Gotten Wealth of Kings and Landowners in the Parables of Enoch /; Priestly Elites and Provincial Annexation in the Testament of Moses /; Slaves to Mammon, Pharisees, and Urban Development in the Q Source /; Conclusion /; Back Matter --; Bibliography /
• ISBN: 9004383646
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

In Revelations of Ideology , G. Anthony Keddie proposes a new theory of the social function of Judaean apocalyptic texts produced in Early Roman Palestine (63 BCE–70 CE). In contrast to evaluations of Jewish and early Christian apocalyptic texts as “literature of the oppressed” or literature of resistance against empire, Keddie demonstrates that scribes produced apocalyptic texts to advance ideologies aimed at self-legitimation. By revealing that their opponents constituted an exploitative class, scribes generated apocalyptic ideologies that situated them in the same exploited class as their constituents. Through careful historical and ideological criticism of the Psalms of Solomon, Parables of Enoch, Testament of Moses, and Q source, Keddie identifies an internally diverse tradition of apocalyptic class rhetoric in late Second Temple Judaism.