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Interpreting Revelation and Other Apocalyptic Literature: An Exegetical Handbook is unavailable, but you can change that!

With historic events seeming to burgeon with signs of the last days, the study of apocalyptic literature--that which is concerned with the end of history as we know it and the coming kingdom of God--has become increasingly relevant. C. Marvin Pate provides a guide to the distinctive content, form, and function of apocalyptic books for those who are interested in exegesis of biblical apocalyptic...

because mantic wisdom itself did not play a significant role in wisdom literature. The second has only an element of truth in it because the two world views of wisdom and apocalypticism are related to two different perspectives: Wisdom is concerned with guiding one in this life, while apocalypticism focuses on the age to come. Indeed, my own examination of wisdom and apocalypticism in Second Temple Judaism demonstrated that the latter reinterprets the former by placing the emphasis on the age to
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