As people started sharing their most influential female biblical scholars, I started noticing that more people may be interested in apocalyptic literature and thought than I had known. Quite a few young scholars, as a matter of fact.
My impression has been that many biblical scholars haven’t cared much for research into apocalyptic writings and thought. [...]
Browsing the archives for the Apocalyptic Thought category
18 Sep 09
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Posted in Apocalyptic Thought, bibliobloggers
9 Jul 09
In other words, is there really such a thing as non-apocalyptic eschatology and what does it look like? In his ABD article on it, Paul Hanson creates a dichotomy between apocalyptic eschatology and prophetic eschatology. Is this valid?
The question came up as I met with Boustan today as we met at a little cafe in [...]
5 Jul 09
I am reading through Mike Bird’s published dissertation, Jesus and the Origins of the Gentile Mission, as part of my Graduate Summer Research Mentorship at UCLA. Through that I noticed his 2004 article in Evangelical Quarterly, “Mission as an Apocalyptic Event: Reflections on Luke 10:18 and Mark 13:10.” If you are familiar with my research [...]
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Posted in Apocalyptic Thought, Michael Bird, books, mission, quotes
3 Jul 09
A while back, Mike put up a very helpful post on the historicity of the future sayings of the “Son of Man” in the Gospels. He basically asked us all whether we think the apocalyptic, future judge “Son of Man” sayings really could be traced back to the lips of Jesus. I was working on [...]
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Posted in Apocalyptic Thought, Historical Jesus, Son of Man
30 May 09
In his essay on the mixture of wisdom, prophetic, and apocalyptic forms in the letter of James, Patrick Hartin suggests that James primarily fits within the genre of wisdom with some influence from apocalyptic discourse [see bibliographic info below - read most of the essay on Google Books]. Since his very recent commentary on James [...]
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Posted in Apocalyptic Thought, Letter of James, Patrick Hartin
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Elsewhere . . .- Some Thoughts On Being A DSS/Second Temple Scholar agathos
- Mellon Seminar Reflection 1: What are T/traditions? April DeConick
- Quote of the Day (Bob Cargill) James F. McGrath
- Fall 2010 Term at Duke Stephen C. Carlson
- NT Blog Seven Years Old Today! Mark Goodacre
- Teaching the Bible e-pub latest Mark Goodacre
- Biblical Studies Carnival, and Other Blog News Mark Goodacre
- First blind PhD graduate in biblical languages? paleojudaica@talktalk.net (Jim Davila)
- CONF: Second Qumran Institute Symposium rogueclassicist
- Received: Jefford’s Reading the Apostolic Fathers: An Introduction (author unknown)
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