The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview

Lester L. Grabbe, Gabriele Boccaccini, Jason M. Zurawski, Lester L. Grabbe, Gabriele Boccaccini, Jason M. Zurawski

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780567685025
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567666154
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Commentary

This tightly focused collection of essays, from an invited seminar of international specialists, centres on the question of the apocalyptic worldview around the time of the Maccabean revolt. What was the nature of apocalyptic at this time? Did the Maccabees themselves have a distinct apocalyptic worldview? These questions lead to other, more specific queries: who of the various groups held such a view? Certain of the essays analyse the characteristics of the apocalypses and related literature in this period, and whether the apocalyptic worldview itself gave rise to historical events or, at least, influenced them.

The collection begins with two introductory essays. Both the main and short papers have individual responses, and two considered responses by well-known experts address the entire collection. The volume finishes with a concluding chapter by the lead editor that gives a perspective on the main themes and conclusions arising from the papers and discussion.

Table of contents

• FC
• LIBRARY OF SECOND TEMPLE STUDIES
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Part I INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS
• 1. INTRODUCTION Lester L. Grabbe
• 2. THE SELEUCID AND HASMONEAN PERIODS AND THE APOCALYPTIC WORLDVIEW—AN INTRODUCTION Lester L. Grabbe
• 3. NON-APOCALYPTIC RESPONSES TO APOCALYPTIC EVENTS: NOTES ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF APOCALYPTICISM Gabriele Boccaccini
• Part II MAJOR PAPERS AND RESPONSES
• 1. UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE APOCALYPTIC WORLDVIEW AND JEWISH SECTARIAN VIOLENCE: THE CASE OF THE WAR BETWEEN ALEXANDER JANNAEUS AND DEMETRIUS III Kenneth Atkinson
• 2. WAS THE MACCABEAN REVOLT AN APOCALYPTIC MOVEMENT? Gerbern S. Oegema
• 3. APOCALYPTIC WORLDVIEWS—WHAT THEY ARE AND HOW THEY SPREAD: INSIGHTS FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Anathea E. Portier-Young
• 4. OVERALL RESPONSE TO THE MAIN PAPERS Erich S. Gruen
• Part III SHORT PAPERS
• SESSION 1 1. THE ARAMAIC DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF JEWISH APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE Daniel A. Machiela
• 2. AN UNLIKELY MIXTURE: SELEUCIDS AND LAGIDS IN DANIEL AND IN PERSIAN APOCALYPTIC Vicente Dobroruka
• SESSION 2 3. TEXTS ON MESSIANIC REIGN FROM THE HASMONEAN PERIOD: 4Q521 AS INTERPRETATION OF DANIEL 7 Torleif Elgvin
• 4. 4QAPOCRYPHON OF DANIEL AR (4Q246) AND THE BOOK OF DANIEL Årstein Justnes
• SESSION 3 5. THE PARADOX OF MIDRASH AND THE APOCALYPTIC AUTHOR: FROM MESOPOTAMIAN DIVINATION TO RABBINIC MIDRASH, THROUGH QUMRAN AND APOCALYPSE Paul Mandel
• 6. APOCALYPTIC ELEMENTS IN HASMONEAN PROPAGANDA: CIVIC IDEOLOGY AND THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL LEGITIMATION Yonder Moynihan Gillihan
• 7. SOME AFTERTHOUGHTS Michael E. Stone
• Part IV CONCLUSIONS
• PERSPECTIVES ON THE APOCALYPTIC WORLDVIEW IN THE HASMONEAN PERIOD Lester L. Grabbe
• Index