The fate of the dead : : studies on the Jewish and Christian apocalypses /

The fate of the dead : : studies on the Jewish and Christian apocalypses / / by Richard Bauckham.

These studies focus on personal eschatology in the Jewish and early Christian apocalypses. The apocalyptic tradition from its Jewish origins until the early middle ages is studied as a continuous literary tradition, in which both continuity of motifs and important changes in understanding of life af...

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Superior document:Supplements to Novum Testamentum, v. 93
:
Bauckham, Richard.
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1998.
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
Series:Novum Testamentum, Supplements 93.
Physical Description:1 online resource (446 pages)
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Descents to the Underworld
  • Early Jewish Visions of Hell
  • Visiting the Places of the Dead in the Extra-Canonical Apocalypses
  • The Rich Man and Lazarus: The Parable and the Parallels
  • The Tongue Set on Fire by Hell (James 3:6)
  • The Conflict of Justice and Mercy: Attitudes to the Damned in Apocalyptic Literature
  • Augustine, the 'compassionate' Christians, and the Apocalypse of Peter
  • The Apocalypse of Peter: A Jewish Christian Apocalypse from the time of Bar Kokhba
  • A Quotation from 4Q second Ezekiel in the Apocalypse of Peter
  • Resurrection as Giving Back the Dead
  • 2 Peter and the Apocalypse of Peter
  • The Apocalypse of the Seven Heavens: The Latin Version
  • The Four Apocalypses of the Virgin Mary
  • The Ascension of Isaiah: Genre, Unity and Date
  • Index of Biblical References.

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