The Apocalyptic Son of Man in the Gospel of John

The Gospel of John presents its readers, listeners, and interpreters with a serious problem: how can we reconcile the Gospel’s exalted spirituality and deep knowledge of Judaism wi...

Abstract Chapter Two considers the ways in which the Gospel of John has come to be understood in ‘apocalyptic’ terms, following John Ashton, suggesting instead that ...

Prometheus, chained to a rock, having his liver pecked out by a great bird only for the organ to grow back again each night so that the torture may be repeated afresh the next day ...

La poésie et la peinture étaient toujours deux différentes expressions de l’esprit et de l’âme de l’homme qui sont dédiées à présenter absolument chacune à sa façon ce qui était di...

The category “apocalyptic prophecy” has long been controversial in biblical scholarship, as has the problem of the relationship between apocalypticism and prophecy. This chapter ex...

Over a period of some fifty years spanning the late first to early second century CE, four major Christian apocalypses with similar literary frameworks emerged: Revelation, the She...

Although rhetorical analysis has been a well-established method in New Testament and Hebrew Bible studies, the rhetoric of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish apocalypses has received ...

The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic is a thematic examination of ancient apocalyptic literature and its analogues in modern times. Apocalypticism first appears in Judaism in the Hel...