Unmasking Apocalyptic Texts
Subtitle: A Guide to Preaching and Teaching
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: November 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780809143566
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; The Bible; Religion; Bible - Hermeneutics; Religion - Biblical Studies - Predictive Prophecy; Bibles; Biblical Studies - Prophecy; Bible - General; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General; Biblical Studies - Exegesis & Hermeneutics; Apocalyptic literature
First sentence: Scholars have had a great deal of ambivalence regarding apocalyptic literature.
Description: "In this original and insightful book, Dorothy Jonaitis offers a refreshing alternative to the popular view of biblical apocalyptic writing as gloom-and-doom, fire-and-brimstone literature. Rather, she presents it as literature of hope and its authors as people who knew how to use their creative imaginations to communicate their hope-filled messages. The reader will come to see the apocalyptic authors of both the Old and the New Testaments as dramatists and will learn to preach, teach, and imagine their writings as dramatic messages to be applied in contemporary times of crisis."--BOOK JACKET.