Sunday, September 20, 2015

Collins, Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy

JOHN J. COLLINS is about to publish a collection of his essays: Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy. On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (Eerdmans, 2015). He has a post on it at the Eerdword Blog: Meet This Book: Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy by John J. Collins.
I have been engaged with apocalypticism as a religious phenomenon throughout my scholarly career. Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy brings together nineteen essays written over the last fifteen years or so. They mainly deal with two recurring issues. One is the question of genre. The other is the issue of apocalyptic ethics.

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