Apocalypses and Apocalypticism in Antiquity (Part I)

DiTommaso, Lorenzo

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“…To understand the emergence of these new modes of temporality in late Second Temple texts, scholars have demonstrated that we need to pay particular attention to the historical period in which notions of Jewish apocalypticism and eschatology first developed (on definitions of apocalypticism, see Collins 1984;DiTommaso 2007a;2007b). Portier-Young 2011, Frisch (2016) and Kosmin (2018), for example, all focus on the Seleucid era as a period that produced predictive texts written in historical veins.…”

Section: Beginnings and Ends: Identifying 'Time' In Apocalyptic Cosmmentioning

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The Temporal Turn in Ancient Judaism and Jewish Studies

Gribetz

Kaye

2019

Currents in Biblical Research

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Despite the apparent finality of Heschel’s pronouncement, in 1951, that Judaism is a ‘religion of time’, the past two decades have seen renewed scholarly interest in the relationship between time, time-keeping, and forms of temporality in Jewish culture. This vibrant engagement with time and temporality in Jewish studies is not an isolated phenomenon. It participates in a broader interdisciplinary examination of time across the arts, humanities and sciences, both in the academy and beyond it. The current article outlines the innovative approaches of this ‘temporal turn’ within ancient Judaism and Jewish studies and reflects on why time has become such an important topic of research in recent years. We address a number of questions: What are the trends in recent work on time and temporality in the fields of ancient Judaism and Jewish studies? What new insights into the study of Judaism have emerged as a result of this focus on time? What reasons (academic, historiographical, technological and geopolitical) underpin this interest in time in such a wide variety of disciplines? And finally, what are some new avenues for exploration in this growing field at the intersection of time and Jewish studies? The article identifies trends and discusses key works in the broad field of Jewish studies, while providing more specific surveys of particular developments in the fields of Second Temple Judaism, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic literature, and some medieval Jewish sources.

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The Temporal Turn in Ancient Judaism and Jewish Studies

Gribetz

Kaye

2019

Currents in Biblical Research

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“…It is fitting to begin this article by paying homage to the German scholar K. Koch and his book, The Rediscovery of Apocalyptic (1972). I am not the first scholar of Daniel to begin an essay this way (Collins 2005: 155; DiTommaso 2007a: 235). Koch’s book is an important benchmark for the questions it posed at the time, and also for the way in which it captured the dissonantal zeitgeist of apocalyptic studies.…”

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“…Nevertheless, Koch’s claim was a harbinger of changing times. By the end of the 1970s, J.J. Collins had published several seminal works on Daniel, including the enormously important Semeia volume, Apocalypse: The Morphology of a Genre (1979; see also DiTommaso 2007a: 238-39). His work demonstrated a new vitality in Daniel studies that has grown exponentially since that time.…”

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A Reversal of Fortunes: Daniel among the Scholars

Willis

2018

Currents in Biblical Research

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Scholarship on the book of Daniel has undergone a significant shift since the publication of K. Koch's groundbreaking work, The Rediscovery of Apocalyptic, in 1972. Despite significant achievements in understanding the historical-critical issues of the book, scholarship viewed Daniel's apocalyptic visions as embarrassing. The renaissance in Daniel studies that began in the 1970s has since produced a robust conversation and newer theory-driven insights around well-established areas of interest. These include Daniel's textual traditions and compositional history, the function of its genres, the social settings of its writers, and Daniel's near eastern literary and cultural milieu. New areas of interest identified in the landmark study of J.J. Collins and P.W. Flint (2001; 2002), namely the history of reception and political theologizing, have also gained ground. Daniel's reversal of fortunes is due to new methodologies as well as a fundamental paradigm shift in interpretation; this change has seen Daniel scholarship move away from the search for Daniel's historical meaning, narrowly construed, and toward the quest to understand what Daniel does to and for its readers.

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Wisdom and Apocalypticism

Zurawski¹

2020

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature

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Apocalypses and Apocalypticism in Antiquity (Part I)

Cited by 9 publications

References 58 publications

The Temporal Turn in Ancient Judaism and Jewish Studies

The Temporal Turn in Ancient Judaism and Jewish Studies

A Reversal of Fortunes: Daniel among the Scholars

Wisdom and Apocalypticism

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