Revealed Wisdom

Until his retirement in 1996, John Ashton, M.A., D. Litt., was Lecturer in New Testament Studies in the Faculty of Theology, Oxford University, having previously taught at the Universities of London, St Andrews, and Edinburgh. He has written extensively on the Gospel of John, notably the highly acclaimed Understanding the Fourth Gospel and the recently published The Gospel of John and Christian Origins. His Wilde lectures on St Paul appeared as The Religion of Paul the Apostle.

"This collection of essays, whose scope reflects the breadth and depth of its honoree’s scholarship, demonstrates the importance of a proper evaluation of apocalyptic texts and themes for Second Temple Judaism, Paul, the gospels, Revelation, and reception history. [...] this excellent Festschrift rightly honors Rowland’s seminal scholarship, and the essays stand as a testimony to the breadth of possibilities his work opens up for the study of the New Testament and its reception." – J. P. Davies, Trinity College, Bristol, in: RBL 04/2016"Die Festschrift für den renommierten Apokalyptik- und Mystikforscher Christopher Rowland versammelt Beiträge die im weitesten Sinne Themen aus dem Bereich der Apokalyptik behandeln. Der Band behandelt aber auch die Rezeption der jüdischen Apokalyptik [...] und eröffnet so einen breiten Horizont für das Thema, das die abendländische Geistesgeschichte nachhaltig geprägt hat." - Beate Ego, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 141 (2016)

• John Ashton, Introduction 1. C.R.A. Morray-Jones, The Opening of Heaven in the Book of Job 2. John Barton, Ethics in Apocalyptic 3. Philip Alexander, Towards a Taxonomy of Jewish Messianisms 4. James C. VanderKam, Psalm 90 and Isaiah 65 in Jubilees 23 5. William Horbury, The Temple Library in Apocalyptic Legend 6. Andrew A. Orlov, Primordial Lights: The Logos and Adoil in the Johannine Prologue and 2 Enoch 7. Martin Goodman, The Date of 2 Baruch 8. Michael Stone, Seeing and Understanding in 4 Ezra 9. Adela Yarbro Collins, The Transformation of Paul’s Apocalyptic Ideas in the First Two Centuries 10, Christopher Tuckett, Paul and Universalism 11. John Muddiman,The Reader of Mark 13:14b as the (Re-)Interpreter of Apocalyptic 12. Harold W. Attridge, Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility in the Fourth Gospel13. John C. Reeves, Jewish Apocalyptic Lore in Early Islam 14. Bernard McGinn, The Concordist Imagination: A Theme in the History of Eschatology 15. Peter Cramer, Hope against hope: a reading of Joachim of Fiore 16. Ian Boxall, Francis of Assisi as Apocalyptic Visionary 17. Sebastian Brock, “The Young Daniel”: a little known Syriac apocalyptic text. Introduction and Translation 18. Robert Morgan, The Place of the Book of Revelation in a New Testament Theology 19. Lorenzo DiTommaso, Pseudonymity and the Revelation of John20.Dan Merkur, From Seer to Saint: Psychotherapeutic Change in the Book of Revelation 21. Andrew Chester, Chaos and New Creation