The purpose of this chapter is to provide a preliminary overview of the three major literary forms covered in this book—prophecy, apocalypse, and visionary literature. My aim is to give the proverbial “lay of the land,” treating the three forms more as categories or branches of literature than genres, though it is not inaccurate to call them “genres.” Later chapters in this book scrutinize the specific genres that make up these parts of the
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