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

Summarized.

• 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.

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

Summarized.

• 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.

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

Summarized.

• 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.