Ultimate Things: An Introduction to Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature

by Greg Carey

Carey presents an introduction to the elements of apocalyptic discourse in the Hebrew Bible, the intertestamental texts of the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and the Jewish and Christian apocalyptic texts. He seeks to help modern readers perplexed by the rampant and somewhat outrageous depiction and interpretation of apocalyptic literature to see apocalyptic discourse as a flexible set of resources that early Jews and Christians could employ for a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0827238037
• ISBN13: 9780827238039
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Chalice Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"