Early Christian apocalypticism :

Early Christian apocalypticism : genre and social setting / guest editor, Adela Yarbro Collins. - Decatur, GA : Scholars Press, c1986. - 174 p ; 24 cm. - Semeia ; 36. .

Includes bibliographies.

Contents: Introduction / Adela Yarbro Collins -- The problem of apocalyptic genre and the Apocalypse of John / David Hellholm -- The Apocalypse of John and the problem of genre / David E. Aune -- The experience of the visionary and genre in the Ascension of Isaiah 6-11 and the Apocalypse of Paul / Martha Himmelfarb -- The genre and function of the Shepherd of Hermas / Carolyn Osiek -- The followers of the Lamb / Elisabeth Sch©ơssler Fiorenza -- A sociological analysis of tribulation in the Apocalypse of John / Leonard Thompson.


Apocalyptic literature.