These distinctions are helpful in drawing attention to the different things traditionally covered by the term “apocalyptic.” The question remains whether or how they are related to each other: Does the use of the literary genre imply a social movement? Or does an apocalypse always contain apocalyptic eschatology? Before we can attempt to answer these questions we must clarify what is meant by each of the terms involved. The notion that there is a class of writings that may be
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