By an Immediate Revelation: Studies in Apocalypticism, Its Origins and Effects

by Christopher Rowland

This volume of essays by Christopher Rowland, written during the last forty years, concerns the nature of apocalypticism and its reception history. His reading of apocalyptic texts is thereby colored not by immersion into the study of "apocalyptic" in biblical scholarship, but by acquaintance with early Jewish mysticism. One of the Oxford English Dictionary's definitions of "mystic" is one which helps to understand not only the mystical but also apocalyptic:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3161597869
• ISBN13: 9783161597862
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Length: 874 Pages
• Weight: 19.79 lbs.