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A collection of twenty-one essays clustered around the theme of apocalyptic—revelations of hitherto undisclosed divine mysteries to human seers, either directly or through the mediation of an interpreting angel. Preliminary essays on the Book of Job, Messianism, and apocalyptic ethics are followed by five studies centred upon Jewish apocalypses composed around the turn of the era, two anonymous, three pseudonymous, and four essays on New Testament writers, two on Paul, one on Mark, and one on John. A reflection upon an early Islamic convert from Judaism, emphasizing the ‘Abrahamic-lexicon’ common to all three religions of the book, is succeeded by essays on two medieval Christian visionaries, Joachim of Fiore and Francis of Assisi. After a further essay on a little known Syriac apocalyptic text the volume concludes with studies of four different aspects of the Book of Revelation itself.
Price: $223.00
Pages: 360
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Publication Date:
16 June 2014
ISBN: 9789004272033
Format: Hardcover
"This collection of essays, whose scope reflects the breadth and depth of its honoree’s scholarship, demonstrates the importance of a proper evaluation of apocalyptic texts and themes for Second Temple Judaism, Paul, the gospels, Revelation, and reception history. [...] this excellent Festschrift rightly honors Rowland’s seminal scholarship, and the essays stand as a testimony to the breadth of possibilities his work opens up for the study of the New Testament and its reception." – J. P. Davies, Trinity College, Bristol, in: RBL 04/2016
"Die Festschrift für den renommierten Apokalyptik- und Mystikforscher Christopher Rowland versammelt Beiträge die im weitesten Sinne Themen aus dem Bereich der Apokalyptik behandeln. Der Band behandelt aber auch die Rezeption der jüdischen Apokalyptik [...] und eröffnet so einen breiten Horizont für das Thema, das die abendländische Geistesgeschichte nachhaltig geprägt hat." - Beate Ego, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 141 (2016)
"Die Festschrift für den renommierten Apokalyptik- und Mystikforscher Christopher Rowland versammelt Beiträge die im weitesten Sinne Themen aus dem Bereich der Apokalyptik behandeln. Der Band behandelt aber auch die Rezeption der jüdischen Apokalyptik [...] und eröffnet so einen breiten Horizont für das Thema, das die abendländische Geistesgeschichte nachhaltig geprägt hat." - Beate Ego, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 141 (2016)
Until his retirement in 1996, John Ashton, M.A., D. Litt., was Lecturer in New Testament Studies in the Faculty of Theology, Oxford University, having previously taught at the Universities of London, St Andrews, and Edinburgh. He has written extensively on the Gospel of John, notably the highly acclaimed Understanding the Fourth Gospel and the recently published The Gospel of John and Christian Origins. His Wilde lectures on St Paul appeared as The Religion of Paul the Apostle.