Revealed Wisdom: Studies in Apocalyptic in Honour of Christopher Rowland (Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity)

373 Pages·2016·2.07 MB·English

by  John Ashton

Revealed Wisdom
Ancient Judaism and
Early Christianity
Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums
und des Urchristentums
Founding Editor
Martin Hengel † (Tübingen)
Executive Editors
Cilliers Breytenbach (Berlin)
Martin Goodman (Oxford)
Editorial Board
Lutz Doering, Durham – Pieter W. van der Horst, Utrecht
Tal Ilan, Berlin – Judith Lieu, Cambridge – Tessa Rajak, Reading and Oxford
Daniel R. Schwartz, Jerusalem – Seth Schwartz, New York
VOLUME 88
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Revealed Wisdom
Studies in Apocalyptic in Honour
of Christopher Rowland
Edited by
John Ashton
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Contents
List of Contributors  ix
Introduction  1
John Ashton
1 The Opening of Heaven in the Book of Job  10
C.R.A. Morray-Jones
2 Ethics in Apocalyptic  37
John Barton
3 Towards a Taxonomy of Jewish Messianisms  52
Philip Alexander
4 Psalm 90 and Isaiah 65 in Jubilees 23  73
James C. VanderKam
5 The Temple Library in Apocalyptic Legend  87
William Horbury
6 Primordial Lights: The Logos and Adoil in the Johannine Prologue
and 2 Enoch  99
Andrei A. Orlov
7 The Date of 2 Baruch  116
Martin Goodman
8 Seeing and Understanding in 4 Ezra  122
Michael E. Stone
9 The Transformation of Paul’s Apocalyptic Ideas in the First Two
Centuries  138
Adela Yarbro Collins
10 Paul and Universalism  155
Christopher Tuckett
11 The Reader of Mark 13:14b as the (Re-)Interpreter of
Apocalyptic  170
John Muddiman
12 Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility in the Fourth
Gospel  183
Harold W. Attridge
13 Jewish Apocalyptic Lore in Early Islam  200
John C. Reeves
14 The Concordist Imagination: A Theme in the History of
Eschatology  217
Bernard McGinn