The Apocalyptic Scriptures
Keywords:
Apocalyptic Eschatology, Apocalypses, Apocalypticism, Apocalyptic in Early Christianity, Apocalyptic in the History of the Church, Apocalyptic todayAbstract
One of the forms of biblical literature. most difficult to interpret is the one which is called "apocalyptic. n The name derives from the Greek verb apokaluptein, which literally means "to uncover, to unveil," and thus, "to reveal." An apocalypse (Greek apokalupsis, "revelation", "disclosure") is a book which contains the revelation of divine mysteries.
References
Paul D. Hanson, “ Apocalypticism," The Interpreter's Dictionary of theBible, Supplementary Volume, pp. 28-34.
Gerhard von Rad, Old Testament Theology, II (London: SCM Press Ltd., 1965),pp. 114-15.
Paul D. Hanson, The Dawn of Apocalyptic (Philadelphia: Fortress Press,1975), p. 11.
Michael Stone Scriptures. Sects and Visions (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980). pp. 31-35; 39-43.
Albert Schweitzer, My Life and Thought, trans. by C. T. Campion (London:Guild Books, 1955), p. 40.
Klaus Koch, The Rediscovery of Apocalyptic, trans. by Margaret Kohl (Studies in Biblical Theology, Second Series, 22; London: SCM Press Ltd" 1972), p. 59.
Philipp Vielhauer, "Apocalyptic in Early Christianity," in Edgar Hennecke and Wilhelm Schnee melcher, eds., New Testament Apocrypha. II (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1965), p. 608.
Theodore N. Swanson, "The Kingship of God in Inter-Testamental Literature," The Bangalore Theological Forum, XII (No. I,1980), pp. 1-25.
J. Christiaan Beker, Paul tile Apostle: Tile Triumph of God in Life and Thought (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980).
Robin Scroggs, " 'Apocalyptic' as the Center of Paul's Gospel," Interpretation, 36/1 (1982), pp, 74-77.
Robert Kysar, John, The Maverick Gospel (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1976), pp. 86-93.
Estevan Bettencourt, "Millenarianism," Sacramentum Mundi: An Encyclopedia of Theology, cd. by Karl Rahner, et al. (Bangalore: Theological Publications in India, 1975), pp. 43-44.
