The apocalyptic imagination <subTitle>An introduction to Jewish apocalyptic literature</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>John J. Collins</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">(1946...)</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">6:1</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">Michigan, U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Wm. B. Eerdmans</publisher> <dateIssued>2016</dateIssued> <edition>3rd edition</edition> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">0 e</languageTerm> </language> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">ng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>442tr.</extent> <extent>paperback</extent> <extent>23cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>After an initial overview of things apocalyptic, Collins proceeds to deal with individual apocalyptic texts -- the early Enoch literature, the book of Daniel, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and others -- concluding with an examination of apocalypticism in early Christianity. Collins has updated this third edition throughout to account for the recent profusion of studies germane to ancient Jewish apocalypticism, and he has also substantially revised and updated the bibliography.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">John J. Collins</note> <subject> <topic>Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">229.913</classification> <classification authority="ddc">J65-C71</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780802872791</identifier> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2021-1</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119070414.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>