Apocalyptic Literature often utilizes pseudonymity or pseudepigraphy for authorization. The volume provides a thorough theoretical discussion and detailed studies on the forms of authorization and constructions of authorship in Jewish and early Christian apocalyptic texts.

The volume provides a comprehensive analysis and discussion of the concepts of authorship and the strategies of authorisation in Jewish and early Christian apocalyptic texts. Two introductory essays discuss the relevance of author concepts in literature and philosophy and present the wide variety of authorship concepts in Greco-Roman antiquity. Detailed studies discuss the constructions of authorship from the biblical prophets and the origins of Jewish apocalypticism in the Enochic tradition through Daniel, 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, and the Ladder of Jacob until the rabbinic literature. A second main part provides thorough discussions of the phenomena of authorization and constructions of authorship in Christian apocalypses from the Revelation of John to the Apocalypses of Peter and Paul and the Ascension of Isaiah. A final study presents glimpses into the reception of late ancient apocalypticism in Dante's Divine Comedy.

Inhalt
I. Einführung und Allgemeines
Franz Tóth: Autorschaft und Autorisation - Martina Janßen: "Was ist ein Autor?" Vorstellungen und (Selbst-)Inszenierungen von Autorschaft in der Antike

II. Frühjüdische Literatur
Konrad Schmid: How the Prophets Became Biblical Authors and How the Biblical Authors Became Prophets - John J. Collins: Torah and Higher Revelation in the Jewish Apocalypses - Matthew Goff: Reading Jewish Wisdom From Before the Flood: Authorship, Prophecy, and Textuality in Enochic Literature - Stefan Krauter: Warum Esra? Beobachtungen zum Autorkonzept des. 4. Esrabuches - István Czachesz: Visions with Authority. Reconsidering the Origins and Transmission of Apocalyptic Visions, with Special Attention to Jewish and Christian Pseudepigrapha - Jordash Kiffiak: Pseudonymity in 2 Baruch : Jeremiah 45.1-5 as the Fertile Seedbed for a Hopeful Exhortation - Christfried Böttrich: Der Stammvater als Offenbarungsträger. Autorisationsstrategien in der apokryphen Leiter Jakobs - Michael Tilly: Apokalyptik und Mystik im rabbinischen Judentum

III. Frühchristliche Literatur
Adela Yarbro Collins: The Construction of the Author's Authority in the Book of Revelation as a Whole - Jan Dochhorn: Zur Konstruktion von Autorschaft in der Ascensio Jesaiae - Tobias Nicklas: Petrusoffenbarung, Christusoffenbarung und ihre Funktion: Autoritätskonstruktion in der Petrusapokalypse - Thomas J. Kraus: "Wieviel 'Paulus' ist in der Apokalypse des Paulus/Visio Pauli?"Eine Apokalypse und ihr Protagonist

IV. Zur Nachwirkung der Antike
Gerhard Regn: Die Apokalypse im Irdischen Paradies. Offenbarung, Allegorie und Dichtung in Dantes Commedia