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The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic is a thematic examination of ancient apocalyptic literature and its analogues in modern times. Apocalypticism first appears in Judaism in the Hellenistic period in the books of Daniel and Enoch. There is a distinctive genre “apocalypse” that describes the disclosure of a transcendent world, both spatial and temporal, to a human recipient, who is usually...
other intersecting ideological axis was constituted by a mythological complex that received its classic literary formulation in some of the so-called apocalyptic books” (2001: 74–75). Schwartz refers to his complex as “the apocalyptic myth.” It was not peculiar to Judaism. Both historical apocalypticism and otherworldly journeys are well attested in Persian tradition, and the otherworld journeys are found in both Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern sources. The present volume, however, is not concerned
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