Trajectories in Near Eastern Apocalyptic
Subtitle: A Postrabbinic Jewish Apocalypse Reader (Resources for Biblical Study (Brill Academic Publishers), No. 45.) (Resources ... Biblical Study (Brill Academic Publishers))
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: January 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9789004130951
Subjects: Judaism; Old Testament; Judaism - Sacred Writings; Jewish; Religion; Religion - Judaism; Judaism - History; Translations into English; Jewish - Ancient; History and criticism; Apocalyptic literature; Eschatology, Jewish
First sentence: THE HEBREW TRACTATE KNOWN AS Sefer Elijah has lately been characterized as the oldest and the least innovative of the Jewish apocalypses produced during late antiquity.