Table of Contents

Preface I. Early Judaism 1: Prophecy and Apocalypticism in Second Temple Judaism 2: Messianic Expectations in the Qumran Writings: Trajectories in their Development 3: The Apocalyptic Interpretation of the Patriarchs in 4Q Patriarchal Blessings (4Q252) II. The Historical Jesus 4: The 'Coming of the Righteous One' in 1 Enoch, Qumran and the New Testament 5: The Historical Jesus between Early Judaism and Early Christianity 6: Jesus' Prophetic and Apocalyptic Interpretation of Scripture III. The Apostle Paul and the Early Church 7: Jesus and His Second Coming: Between Messianism and Eschatology 8: The Christological Interpretation of the Bible in the Letters of Paul 9: Paul and the Development of Early Christian Eschatology 10: 2 Baruch, the Messiah, and the Bar Kochba Revolt IV. Reception History 11: Back to the Future in the Early Church: The Use of the Book of Daniel in Early Patristic Eschatology 12: The Heritage of Jewish Apocalypticism in Rabbinic and Early Medieval Judaism Index

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An examination of Apocalypticism from one of the leading lights in the field.

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Gerbern S. Oegema is Professor of Biblical Studies and Founder of the Center for Research on Religion at McGill University

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