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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...

prevailed before Koch wrote his monograph. I should add that ‘apocalypticism’ should not be the starting point of the discussion either. We need to start from a specific body of texts, not from a vague notion of family resemblance. Perhaps the question that is most central to discussions of the relationship between prophetic and apocalyptic literature concerns the kind of eschatology found in each. The great majority of scholars have felt that there is a difference
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