Apocalyptic Interpretation of the Bible

This book presents a synthesis of Gerbern Oegema's extensive research on apocalypticism and Biblical interpretation. Oegema works with the hypothesis that apocalypticism was a major current and mindset from the beginning of the Second Temple period, through Enochic literature, the Qumran Scrolls and the New Testament into Late Antiquity, shaping many inner-Jewish traditions and those emerging from Early Judaism, namely the Early Church and Rabbinic Judaism.

The topics and texts dealt with range from prophecy and apocalypticism in Second Temple Judaism, messianic expectations in the Qumran writings, the apocalyptic interpretation of the Patriarchs in 4QPatriarchal Blessings (4Q252), the 'Coming of the Righteous One' in 1 Enoch, Qumran and the New Testament, to the historical Jesus between Early Judaism and Early Christianity.

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Gerbern S. Oegema is Professor of Biblical Studies at McGill University, Canada.

Inhalt

Preface*I. Early Judaism*\Chapter 1: Prophecy
and Apocalypticism in Second Temple Judaism\Chapter 2: Messianic
Expectations in the Qumran Writings: Trajectories in their Development\Chapter
3: The Apocalyptic
Interpretation of the Patriarchs in *4QPatriarchal
Blessings (4Q252)*II. The Historical Jesus\Chapter 4: The
'Coming of the Righteous One' in 1 Enoch,
Qumran and the New Testament\Chapter 5: The Historical Jesus between Early
Judaism and Early Christianity\Chapter 6: Jesus' Prophetic and Apocalyptic Interpretation
of Scripture*III. The Apostle Paul and the Early Church*\Chapter 7: Jesus and His Second
Coming: Between Messianism and Eschatology\Chapter 8: The Christological
Interpretation of the Bible in the Letters of Paul\Chapter 9: Paul and the
Development of Early Christian Eschatology\Chapter 10: 2 Baruch, the Messiah, and the Bar Kochba Revolt*IV. Reception History*\Chapter 11: Back to the Future in the Early
Church: The Use of the Book of Daniel in Early Patristic Eschatology\Chapter
12: The Heritage of Jewish Apocalypticism in Rabbinic and Early Medieval Judaism\Index