Index of Subjects

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Where Should We Look for the Roots of Jewish Apocalypticism? 5
5. Apocalyptic Literature and Experiences of Contact with the Other-World in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity 27
6. Time and History in Ancient Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Writings 53
7. Apocalyptic Writings in Qumran and the Community’s Idea of History 89
8. This Age and the Age to Come in 2 Baruch 117
9. Jesus and Jewish Apocalyptic 141
10. Time and History: The Use of the Past and the Present in the Book of Revelation 187
11. Dreams, Visions and the World-to-Come according to the Shepherd of Hermas 215
12. Ezra and his Visions: From Jewish Apocalypse to Medieval Tour of Hell 235
13. Views of the World to Come in the Jewish-Christian Sibylline Oracles 261
14. Defying the Divine: Jannes and Jambres in Apocalyptic Perspective¹ 283
15. Between Jewish and Egyptian Thinking: The Apocalypse of Sophonias as a Bridge between Two Worlds? 319
16. From the ‘Gnostic Dialogues’ to the ‘Apostolic Memoirs’: Literary and Historical Settings of the Nag Hammadi Apocalypses 343
17. What is ‘Gnostic’ within Gnostic Apocalypses? 385
18. Being in corpore/carne and extra corpus: some interrelations within the Apocalypsis Pauli/Visio Pauli 411
19. From Historical Apocalypses to Apocalyptic History: Late Antique Historians and Apocalyptic Writings 433
20. Qur’anic Eschatology in its Biblical and Late Ancient Matrix 461
21. The Book of Revelation and Visual Culture 487
22. List of Contributors 505
23. Index of Ancient Sources 507
24. Index of Modern Authors 537
25. Index of Subjects 545