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In his introduction to Jewish apocalyptic literature, Collins examines the main characteristics and discusses the setting and intention of apocalyptic literature. He begins his discussion of Daniel with a survey of the book’s anomalies and an examination of the bearing of form criticism on those anomalies. He explores the book’s place in the canon and the problems with its coherence and...

of literary, social, and phenomenological elements has engendered confusion. Since the work of Koch, Stone, and Hanson there has been widespread agreement that the genre apocalypse should be distinguished from “apocalypticism” and “apocalyptic eschatology.” (2) The genre apocalypse was not clearly recognized and labeled in antiquity. The use of “apocalypse” as a genre label appears to be derived from the book of Revelation in the NT. In the light of the Mani Codex, which speaks of “apocalypses” of
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