Seers, Sibyls and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism

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John J. Collins
This volume brings together essays written over two decades by a leading authority in the field. The collection includes 2 recent essays that are published here for the first time. The articles cover major aspects of the discussion of Jewish apocalypticism, in relation to the Hebrew bible, the New Testament and the Hellenistic-Roman world. Distinctive strengths of the volume include clusters of essays on the Sibylline oracles and on the relationship between apocalypticism and wisdom. A section of the book is devoted to studies on Daniel.

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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter One Before the Canon. Scriptures in Second Temple Judaism
Chapter Two Genre, Ideology and Social Movements in Jewish Apocalypticism
Chapter Three The Place of Apocalypticism in the Religion of lsrael
Chapter Four Jewish Apocalypticism against its Hellenistic Near Eastern Environment
Chapter Five Apocalyptic Eschatology as the Transcendence of Death
Chapter Six The Kingdom of God in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Chapter Seven The Christian Adaptation of the Apocalyptic Genre
Chapter Eight Nebuchadnezzar and the Kingdom of God
Chapter Nine Stirring up the Great Sea
Chapter Ten The Meaning of the End in the Book of Daniel
Chapter Eleven “The King has become a Jew”
Chapter Twelve The Jewish Adaptation of Sibylline Oracles
Chapter Thirteen The Sibyl and the Potter: Political Propaganda in Ptolemaic Egypt
Chapter Fourteen A Symbol of Otherness. Circumcision and Salvation in the First Century
Chapter Fifteen The Origin of the Qumran Community: A Review of the Evidence
Chapter Sixteen Was the Dead Sea Sect an Apocalyptic Movement?
Chapter Seventeen The Origin of Evil in Apocalyptic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Chapter Eighteen Prophecy and Fulfillment in the Qumran Scrolls
Chapter Nineteen Cosmos and Salvation: Jewish Wisdom and Apocalypticism in the Hellenistic Age
Chapter Twenty The Sage in the Apocalyptic and Pseudepigraphic Literature
Chapter Twenty One The Root of lmmortality. Death in the Context of Jewish Wisdom
Chapter Twenty Two Wisdom, Apocalypticism and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Chapter Twenrty Three Wisdom, Apocalypticism and Generic Compatibility
John J. Collins, Ph.D. (1972) in Semitic Languages, Harvard, is Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Chicago. He has published widely on apocalypticism and Hellenistic Judaism. Recent books include a commentary on the book of Daniel in the Hermeneia series and The Scepter and the Star, on Messianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
' ...Collins's best articles...'
Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar, Journal for the Study of Judaism, 1998.
' These […] essays […] provide first-rate scholarly treatment of the primary texts in question, impressive mastery of the vast secondary literature on the subject under study, and careful, sound insight into the genre and its literary-theological dimensions…a valuable contribution to the study of Hellenistic-Roman Judaism.'
Susan F. Mathews, Journal of Jewish Studies.
Students of Bible, Old Testament and New Testament, Ancient Judaism, history of religions.
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