Assumptio Mosis and the Eschatology of Despair
Assumptio Mosis is an early first-millennium Jewish work framed as a farewell discourse from Moses to Joshua. The work rewrites the ending section of Deuteronomy, and includes within it a prophecy describing events in the distant future, alternative or supplementary to the predictions offered in Deu...
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Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
Язык: | Английский |
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University of Otago, Department of Theology and Religion
[2013]
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Relegere
Год: 2013, Том: 3, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 121-147 |
Другие ключевые слова: | B
Apocalyptic
B Assumptio Mosis B Reception History |
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Итог: | Assumptio Mosis is an early first-millennium Jewish work framed as a farewell discourse from Moses to Joshua. The work rewrites the ending section of Deuteronomy, and includes within it a prophecy describing events in the distant future, alternative or supplementary to the predictions offered in Deuteronomy proper. This new twist on Moses’s prophetic vision may derive from a certain despair faced by the community of which this author was a part, perhaps, as the article suggests, the Hadrianic persecution. According to this visionary re-interpretation of Deuteronomy, there is nothing for the Jews to do but suffer and wait for redemption until the world is undone and they leave it for a better place; an eschatology of defeat and despair, at least in this world. |
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ISSN: | 1179-7231 |
Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Relegere
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.11157/rsrr3-1-571 |