Ultimate Things: An Introduction to Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature

Carey presents an introduction to the elements of apocalyptic discourse in the Hebrew Bible, the intertestamental texts of the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and the Jewish and Christian apocalyptic texts. He seeks to help modern readers perplexed by the rampant and somewhat outrageous depiction and interpretation of apocalyptic literature to see apocalyptic discourse as a flexible set of resources that early Jews and Christians could employ for a variety of persuasive tasks.

Author: Greg Carey
Publisher: Chalice Press
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.11w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780827238039

About the Author
Greg Carey is professor of New Testament at Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He co edited Vision and Persuasion: Rhetorical Dimensions of Apocalyptic Discourse from Chalice Press and has written Elusive Apocalypse: Reading Authority in the Revelation to John from Mercer University Press.