Gerbern S. Oegema is Professor of Biblical Studies and Founder of the Center for Research on Religion at McGill University

• PrefaceI. Early Judaism1: Prophecy and Apocalypticism in Second Temple Judaism2: Messianic Expectations in the Qumran Writings: Trajectories in their Development3: The Apocalyptic Interpretation of the Patriarchs in 4Q Patriarchal Blessings (4Q252)II. The Historical Jesus4: The 'Coming of the Righteous One' in 1 Enoch, Qumran and the New Testament5: The Historical Jesus between Early Judaism and Early Christianity6: Jesus' Prophetic and Apocalyptic Interpretation of ScriptureIII. The Apostle Paul and the Early Church7: Jesus and His Second Coming: Between Messianism and Eschatology8: The Christological Interpretation of the Bible in the Letters of Paul9: Paul and the Development of Early Christian Eschatology10: 2 Baruch, the Messiah, and the Bar Kochba RevoltIV. Reception History11: Back to the Future in the Early Church: The Use of the Book of Daniel in Early Patristic Eschatology12: The Heritage of Jewish Apocalypticism in Rabbinic and Early Medieval JudaismIndex

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