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Re: Pervasiveness of Apocalyptic Historicism among first century Jews?

From: Jim West <jwest AT Highland.Net>
To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Pervasiveness of Apocalyptic Historicism among first century Jews?
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 11:34:25 -0400

At 11:11 AM 5/7/99 -0400, you wrote:

>How pervasive was an Apocalyptic understanding of history among Jews in
>the first century?

If one takes the Qumran sect, the Essenes, and the various apocalyptic
writings then available- the answer is VERY! See Grabbe's "Judaism From
Cyrus to Hadrian".

>
>How pervasive was an Apocalyptic understanding of history among
>Pharisees?

The Pharisees were as apocalyptic as anyone.

>
>Did the development of various Jewish sects in the last centuries B.C.E.
>represent different responses to the same stimuli?
>

On this question you simply must read Baumgarten's "The Flourishing of
Apocalyptic Sects in the Maccabean Era".
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Jim West, ThD
Petros Baptist Church- Pastor
Quartz Hill School of Theology- Adjunct Prof. of Bible

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Pervasiveness of Apocalyptic Historicism among first century Jews?, robertbayer, 05/07/1999
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- Re: Pervasiveness of Apocalyptic Historicism among first century Jews?, Jim West, 05/07/1999