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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...

catchword “glory.”42 Koch does not claim that all these elements are found in every apocalypse, even in his rather limited list, which essentially corresponds to the “historical” apocalypses of Semeia 14. It is apparent, however, that these characteristics do not correspond at all to an apocalypse like 2 Enoch and that they ignore much of the speculative material that is prominent even in the earliest works of the Enoch tradition. So Michael Stone has argued that “there are some of the books which
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