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The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (Third Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

One of the most widely praised studies of Jewish apocalyptic literature ever written, The Apocalyptic Imagination by John J. Collins has served for over thirty years as a helpful, relevant, comprehensive survey of the apocalyptic literary genre. After an initial overview of things apocalyptic, Collins proceeds to deal with individual apocalyptic texts—the early Enoch literature, the book of...

all apocalypses. All the apocalypses, however, involve a transcendent eschatology that looks for retribution beyond the bounds of history. In some cases (3 Baruch, Apocalypse of Zephaniah) this takes the form of the judgment of individuals after death, without reference to the end of history. We should bear in mind that retribution after death is also a crucial component in a “historical” apocalypse like Daniel and constitutes a major difference from the eschatology of the prophets.40 The fact that
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