Book: Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy

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Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy: On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

John J. Collins, the Holmes Professor of Divinity and Professor of Religious Studies

(Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company)

John J. Collins has written extensively on the subject of Jewish apocalyptic texts. Nineteen of his essays written over the last fifteen years, including previously unpublished contributions, are brought together for the first time in “Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy.”

Following an introductory essay that revisits the problem of defining Apocalypse as a literary genre, Collins deals with a number of different topics, including the relationship between apocalypse and prophecy and the ethical issues raised by apocalyptic texts. Collins also examines several specific examples to show the themes and variation present in the genre. Organized in five sections, these thematic essays complement Collins’s book “The Apocalyptic Imagination.”

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