Revolt of the scribes : resistance and apocalyptic origins /
Horsley, Richard A.
Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press,
c2010.
"If earlier scholarship on apocalyptic literature was once described as "clueless about apocalypticism," it was due in part to a focus on questions of definition, literary genre, and theological eccentricity. Richard A. Horsley takes a different approach, letting the language of the apocalypses themselves reveal their chief concern: the expanding domination by foreign empires and the form that popular defiance should take. Most telling are the traces where Judean scribes wrote themselves into their texts - and thus into God's purposes in history."--BOOK JACKET.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"If earlier scholarship on apocalyptic literature was once described as "clueless about apocalypticism," it was due in part to a focus on questions of definition, literary genre, and theological eccentricity. Richard A. Horsley takes a different approach, letting the language of the apocalypses themselves reveal their chief concern: the expanding domination by foreign empires and the form that popular defiance should take. Most telling are the traces where Judean scribes wrote themselves into their texts - and thus into God's purposes in history."--BOOK JACKET.
Apocalyptic literature.