The Subversion Of The Apocalypses In The Book Of Jubilees (early Judaism And Its Literature)
by Hanneken /
2013 / English / PDF
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In spite of some scholars inclination to include the book of
Jubilees as another witness to Enochic Judaism, the relationship of
Jubilees to the apocalyptic writings and events surrounding the
Maccabean revolt has never been adequately clarified. This book
builds on scholarship on genre to establish a clear pattern among
the ways Jubilees resembles and differs from other apocalypses.
Jubilees matches the apocalypses of its day in overall structure
and literary morphology. Jubilees also uses the literary genre to
raise the issues typical of the apocalypses including revelation,
angels and demons, judgment, and eschatology but rejects what the
apocalypses typically say about those issues, subverting reader
expectations with a corrected view. In addition to the main
argument concerning Jubilees, this volume s survey of what is
fundamentally apocalyptic about apocalyptic literature advances the
understanding of early Jewish apocalyptic literature and in turn,
of later apocalypses and comparable perspectives, including those
of Paul and the Qumran sectarians.
In spite of some scholars inclination to include the book of
Jubilees as another witness to Enochic Judaism, the relationship of
Jubilees to the apocalyptic writings and events surrounding the
Maccabean revolt has never been adequately clarified. This book
builds on scholarship on genre to establish a clear pattern among
the ways Jubilees resembles and differs from other apocalypses.
Jubilees matches the apocalypses of its day in overall structure
and literary morphology. Jubilees also uses the literary genre to
raise the issues typical of the apocalypses including revelation,
angels and demons, judgment, and eschatology but rejects what the
apocalypses typically say about those issues, subverting reader
expectations with a corrected view. In addition to the main
argument concerning Jubilees, this volume s survey of what is
fundamentally apocalyptic about apocalyptic literature advances the
understanding of early Jewish apocalyptic literature and in turn,
of later apocalypses and comparable perspectives, including those
of Paul and the Qumran sectarians.
