God’s people in visions and letters: 2 Baruch and Revelation as epistolary apocalypses
The Apocalypse of John and 2 Baruch are Jewish apocalypses in which the authors and their communities wrestle with the question of what Israel’s being chosen as God’s people means in view of the destruction of the second temple and shifting historical circumstances. Both works uphold God’s faithfuln...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Year: 2025, Volume: 34, Issue: 4, Pages: 268-284 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Apocalypse of Baruch
/ Apocrypha
/ Revelation (Motif)
/ Messiah (Motif)
B Revelation |
| Further subjects: | B
Epistolary Apocalypse
B God’s people B Letter-writing B Messiah B Twelve Tribes B Torah |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | The Apocalypse of John and 2 Baruch are Jewish apocalypses in which the authors and their communities wrestle with the question of what Israel’s being chosen as God’s people means in view of the destruction of the second temple and shifting historical circumstances. Both works uphold God’s faithfulness toward Israel but define it in different ways. While 2 Baruch stresses the validity of Torah, the Apocalypse of John emphasizes the role of the Messiah for his people. Both apocalypses, however, uphold that God’s people can only be defined as the people of the twelve tribes and thus try to put the Israel of their works in the closest possible continuity with the Israel of the Hebrew scriptures. On a form-critical level, visionary depictions of Israel are combined with letter-writing forms, making both works an interesting phenomenon of “epistolary apocalypses.” |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5286 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/09518207251325290 |
