Collins collects essays he wrote since the turn of the 21st century, two of the 19 published here for the first time. In the introduction, he revisits the problems of defining apocalypse as a literary genre in light of developments in literary theory over the past few decades. Then he covers apocalypse and prophecy, variations on a genre, themes in Jewish apocalyptic literature, pseudepigraphy, and ethics and politics. Among his topics are the beginning of the end of the world in the Hebrew Bible, the genre of the book of Jubilees, Jerusalem and the temple in Jewish apocalyptic literature of the Second Temple period, ethos and identity in Jewish apocalyptic literature, and radical religion and the ethical dilemmas of apocalyptic millenarianism. Annotation 2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
