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Knowing the End from the Beginning: The Prophetic, the Apocalyptic and Their Relationships (Library of Second Temple Studies) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Much has been written on prophecy and apocalyptic in recent decades, but the relationship between the two has been little explored. A major explicit debate on the question is very much needed and is now provided here. This collection of essays addresses the subject from a variety of points of view, including the issues of definitions, ancient Near Eastern ‘prophecies’, social anthropology, place...

the main themes found in the papers and discusses them in the light of how they are treated in the papers and in the broader context of contemporary scholarship. A word should be said about terminology. There has been a recent tendency in North America to employ the term ‘apocalypticism’ as the noun and reserve ‘apocalyptic’ to adjectival usage. In Anglophone discussions in Europe, however, such a distinction has not yet been embraced; indeed, it has been scornfully rejected by some.3 The argument
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