Apocalyptic Interpretation of the Bible

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

• I. Introduction: Apocalypticism; Prophecy and Apocalypticism in Second Temple Judaism; II. Early Judaism; Messianic Expectations in the Qumran Writings: Trajectories in their Development; The Apocalyptic Interpretation of the Patriarchs in 4QPatriarchal Blessings (4Q252); The 'Coming of the Righteous One' in 1 Enoch, Qumran and the New Testament. III. The Historical Jesus; The Historical Jesus between Early Judaism and Early Christianity; Jesus' Prophetic and Apocalyptic Interpretation of Scripture; Jesus and His Second Coming: Between Messianism and Eschatology; IV. The Apostle Paul; The Christological Interpretation of the Bible in the Letters of Paul; Paulus and the Development of Early Christian Eschatology; V. Reception History; Canon and Apocalypticism. The Influence of the Revelation of John on the Canonisation of the Christian Bible; Back to the Future in the Early Church: The Use of the Book of Daniel in Early Patristic Eschatology; The Heritage of Jewish Apocalypticism in Rabbinic and Early Medieval Judaism.

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