TY - BOOK ID - 3407092 TI - A new reading of the animal Apocalypse of 1 Enoch : "all nations shall be blessed" PY - 2013 VL - 24 SN - 9789004245303 9789004247789 9004245308 9004247785 PB - Leiden: Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Apocalyptic literature KW - Animals KW - Jews KW - History and criticism. KW - Symbolic aspects. KW - Religious aspects KW - Judaism. KW - History KW - Ethiopic book of Enoch LXXXV-XC KW - Bible KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History of Biblical events KW - 229*209 KW - I Henoch (Ethiopische Henoch) KW - 229*209 I Henoch (Ethiopische Henoch) KW - Judaism KW - Symbolic aspects of animals KW - Symbolism of animals KW - Symbolism KW - Animal kingdom KW - Beasts KW - Fauna KW - Native animals KW - Native fauna KW - Wild animals KW - Wildlife KW - Organisms KW - Human-animal relationships KW - Zoology KW - Religious aspects&delete& KW - Symbolic aspects KW - History and criticism KW - Bible. KW - Animal apocalypse KW - Antico Testamento KW - Hebrew Bible KW - Hebrew Scriptures KW - Kitve-ḳodesh KW - Miḳra KW - Old Testament KW - Palaia Diathēkē KW - Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa KW - Sean-Tiomna KW - Stary Testament KW - Tanakh KW - Tawrāt KW - Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim KW - Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim KW - Velho Testamento KW - History of Biblical events. KW - Apocalyptic literature - History and criticism. KW - Animals - Symbolic aspects. KW - Animals - Religious aspects - Judaism. KW - Jews - History - To 70 A.D. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3407092 AB - A New Reading of the Animal Apocalypse of 1 Enoch is the most comprehensive theological commentary on this important second-century BCE Jewish apocalypse to date, laying out the purpose and methodology of this Enochic allegory and using this as the basis for a new commentary on the whole text, presented here in a fresh translation. Against other interpretations that focus on Israel and its institutions, Daniel Olson argues that the promise of universal blessing in the Abrahamic covenant is presented in the Animal Apocalypse as the governing dynamic in a sacred history that begins and ends with humanity in general. The authentic Jacob/Israel will appear in the end times and be the catalyst of universal salvation ER -