Expectations of the End

Albert L.A. Hogeterp, Ph.D. (2004) in Biblical Studies (New Testament), University of Groningen, is postdoc researcher at the Faculteit Katholieke Theologie, Utrecht. He published a monograph on Paul and God's Temple (Peeters, 2006) and various articles on eschatology in Qumran.

"This monograph aims to integrate the full evidence of the Dead Sea Scrolls available since the 1990s into the comparative study of eschatological ideas in Second Temple Judaism and emerging Christianity. Hogeterp traces Qumran eschatology back to its scriptural bases and defines its setting in the Palestinian Judaism of the late Second Temple Period. Focusing on the issues of resurrection, apocalypticism, and messianism, Hogeterp explores how both sectarian and non-sectarian Qumran texts illuminate New Testament traditions and their Palestinian Jewish roots. He emphasizes that the variegated Qumran evidence challenges recurrent contrasts between realized and futurist eschatology, wisdom and apocalyptic, as well as political-nationalistic and prophetic-ethical messianism."