Prophecy and Apocalypticism
The Postexilic Social Settings
- Biblical Studies & Commentaries
- Publisher: Fortress Press (Augsburg Fortress)
- Published: 1991
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Publisher's Description
Did Israelite Jewish apocalyptic literature originate among alienated or disenfranchised groups? In this overview of apocalypticism in the Hebrew Bible, Stephen Cook contends that such thinking and writing stems from priestly groups that held power.
Endorsements (2)
“This book will surely make a contribution to the sometimes oversimplified theories of social constructionists in biblical studies. It will help correct a specific mistake of those with a weak grasp of class theory, i.e., connecting or identifying literary genre-voice and class location voice. It is well past the time to stop the patronizing of 'the dispossessed' by assigning them exclusive claims to apocalypticism, a genre that makes the post-Enlightenment academic uneasy, but which has been put to diverse ideological uses throughout history.”
“Cook has enriched our understanding of the theology of the postexilic Temple cult by showing that it has pronounced eschatological perspective.”
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