Gilayon and "Apocalypse": Reconsidering an Early Jewish Concept and Genre

This paper examines various ways in which apocalyptic studies can benefit from the introduction of the term and concept of gilayon, a reconstructed Hebrew counterpart of the Judeo-Greek apocalypse. The term gilayon, which combines the meanings of "revealed book" and "book of revelatio...

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Auteur principal: Ḳuliḳ, Aleksander 1970- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Cambridge Univ. Press 2023
Dans: Harvard theological review
Année: 2023, Volume: 116, Numéro: 2, Pages: 190-227
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Bibel. Neues Testament / Judaïsme primitif / Christianisme primitif / Apocalyptique / Genre littéraire
Classifications IxTheo:HC Nouveau Testament
HD Judaïsme ancien
KAB Christianisme primitif
Sujets non-standardisés:B Reconstruction
B Paronomasia
B Revelation
B Book
B Gospel
B Voix moyenne
B Wordplay
B Genre
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Résumé:This paper examines various ways in which apocalyptic studies can benefit from the introduction of the term and concept of gilayon, a reconstructed Hebrew counterpart of the Judeo-Greek apocalypse. The term gilayon, which combines the meanings of "revealed book" and "book of revelation," refers to a central image of early Jewish revealed literature and could serve to define an important corpus, the boundaries of which might well overlap with (but still differ from) what is understood by the "genre apocalypse" in modern research. Moreover, this reconstructed concept uncovers additional meanings and associations, which shed light on texts known as "apocalyptic," and has explanatory power for many phenomena associated with them. The introduction of gilayon may modify the entire paradigm of our understanding of early Jewish mysticism and help to divert the discussion of textual genres associated with it from a phenomenological to a historical route.
ISSN:1475-4517
Contient:Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0017816023000111