Corpus-Paul

["Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim West [mailto:jwest AT Highland.Net]
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 11:34 AM
> To: Corpus-paul
> Subject: Re: Pervasiveness of Apocalyptic Historicism among first
> century Jews?
>
>
I understand apocalyptic in this discussion to refer to the possession of a
secret knowledge. Is that correct?

> 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".
I understand we have the Essenes at Qumran and the various apocalyptic
writings. I don't see that we can generalize from these.  Josephus did not
have an apocalypic view of the world.  He seems more representative to me,
but it is impossible to know.

>
> >
> >How pervasive was an Apocalyptic understanding of history among
> >Pharisees?
>
> The Pharisees were as apocalyptic as anyone.
We have no writings from the Pharisees.

Liz

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Lisbeth S. Fried
Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
New York University
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