Revealed Histories
Subtitle: Techniques for Ancient Jewish and Christian Historiography
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jan 29, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781474230339
Description: "Ancient Jewish and Christian writers frequently sought to persuade by claiming to understand the past through revelation. Hall shows how the long recitals of past events often found in apocalypses are not to be seen as mere preludes to predictions, but prove integral to the author's argument. This original study concludes that many ancient Jews and Christians found claims to inspiration an acceptable basis for re-telling past events and that early Christian prophets consciously shaped not only the sayings of Jesus but the narrative structure in which the sayings occur."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Ancient Jewish and Christian writers frequently sought to persuade by claiming to understand the past through revelation. Hall shows how the long recitals of past events often found in apocalypses are not to be seen as mere preludes to predictions, but prove integral to the author's argument. This original study concludes that many ancient Jews and Christians found claims to inspiration an acceptable basis for re-telling past events and that early Christian prophets consciously shaped not only the sayings of Jesus but the narrative structure in which the sayings occur
Notes: Source title: Revealed Histories: Techniques for Ancient Jewish and Christian Historiography (The Library of Second Temple Studies)