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This volume contains five chapters which investigate the early Christian appropriations of Jewish apocalyptic material. An introductory chapter surveys ancient perceptions of the apocalyses as well as their function, authority, and survival in the early Church. The second chapter focuses on a specific tradition by exploring the status of the Enoch-literature, the use of the fallen-angel motif, and the identification of Enoch as an eschatological witness. Christian transmission of Jewish texts, a topic whose significance is more and more being recognized, is the subject of chapter three which analyzes what happend to 4,5 and 6 Ezra as they were copied and edited in Christian circles. Chapter four studies the early Christian appropriation and reinterpretation of Jewish apocalyptic chronologies, especially Daniel's vision of 70 weeks. The fifth and last chapter is devoted to the use and influence of Jewish apocalyptic traditions among Christian sectarian groups in Asia Minor and particularly in Egypt. Taken together these chapters written by four authors, offer illuminating examples of how Jewish apocalyptic texts and traditions fared in early Christianity. Editors James C. VanderKam is lecturing at the University of Notre Dame; William Adler is lecturer at North Carolina State University. Series: Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum Section 1 - The Jewish people in the first century Historial geography, political history, social, cultural and religious life and institutions Edited by S. Safrai and M. Stern in cooperation with D. Flusser and W.C. van Unnik Section 2 - The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud Section 3 - Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature

Apocalyptic literature --- Apocalyptische literatuur --- Apocriefe boeken (Oud Testament) --- Apocryphal books (Old Testament) --- Apocryphes (Ancien Testament) --- Bible. O.T. Apocryphal books --- Christelijke literatuur [Vroeg] --- Christian literature [Early ] --- Early christian literature --- Literature [Apocalyptic ] --- Literatuur [Apocalyptische ] --- Littérature apocalyptique --- Littérature chrétienne primitive --- Livres apocryphes (Ancien Testament) --- Vroegchristelijke literatuur --- 296*64 --- Joods messianisme en apocalyptiek --- 296*64 Joods messianisme en apocalyptiek --- Apocalyptic literature. --- Christian literature, Early. --- Christianity and other religions --- Judaism --- Church history --- Judaism. --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Christianity --- Ethiopic book of Enoch --- Bible. O.T. Apocrypha. Ezra, 2nd --- Relation to the New Testament --- Bible. O.T. Daniel IX, 24-27 --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- History --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Brotherhood Week --- Early Christian literature --- Patristic literature --- Old Testament apocryphal books --- Pseudepigraphal books (Old Testament) --- Literature, Apocalyptic --- Literature --- Ethiopic book of Enoch. --- Bible. --- Apocalypse of Ezra (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Apocalypse of Esdras (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Apokalypse des Esra (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Esdras (Book 2, Apocrypha) --- Esdras (Book 4) --- Hazon Ezra (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Ḥezyonot ʻEzra (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Book of Enoch, Ethiopic --- Enoch, Ethiopic Book of --- Book of the Ethiopic Enoch --- Äthiopischer Henoch --- Buch Henoch --- 1 Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- First Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- 1st Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- Relation to the New Testament. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Christianity and other religions - Judaism. --- Judaism - Relations - Christianity.