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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...

Apocalyptic literature takes its name from the book of Revelation in the New Testament. “Apocalypse” means “revelation,” but the name is reserved for revelations that deal either with eschatology (the end of history and the fate of the dead) or the heavenly and infernal regions, or both. This kind of literature first appears in Judaism at the end of the Old Testament period, in the book of Daniel. The main corpus of Jewish apocalypses (books of Enoch, 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, etc.) was not included
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