RELG 203 Lecture 1: Week 9-1 Lecture Notes
Document Summary
Apocalyptic" refers to a genre of primarily jewish literature that extends form passages in the hebrew bible through until books written into the common era. Apo + kalupto is a compound word in greek meaning reveal", so that which is given in apocalyptic literature is a revelation of something once hidden. Often, apocalyptic works speak of a coming of judgement, hence that lexical drift until today, where apocalyptic" refers to the sorts of events once associated with divine judgement. In the canonical hebrew bible, there are several sections that are considered to be the origination of apocalyptic literature, including isaiah 24-27; jeremiah 33:14-26; In non-canonical literature, there are apocalypses attributed to abraham, adam, Baruch (jeremiah"s scribe), daniel, elijah, ezra, gabriel, lamech, metatron, moses, Sedrach, zephaniah, and zarubbabel. much of the so-called testamentary literature also contains apocalyptic material. Metatron: associated with mercaba mysticism, giving revelation. Zarubbabel: associated with the notion of a divine king.
