TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keddie, Anthony
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - Revelations of ideology: apocalyptic class politics in early Roman Palestine
T3  - Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism volume 189
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Apocalyptic literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Jews
KW  - History
KW  - Palestine
KW  - Christians
KW  - To 1500
KW  - 168 B.C.-135 A.D
KW  - To 70 A.D
AB  - "In Revelations of Ideology, G. Anthony Keddie proposes a new theory of the social function of Judaean apocalyptic texts produced in Early Roman Palestine (63 BCE-70 CE). In contrast to evaluations of Jewish and early Christian apocalyptic texts as "literature of the oppressed" or literature of resistance against empire, Keddie demonstrates that scribes produced apocalyptic texts to advance ideologies aimed at self-legitimation. By revealing that their opponents constituted an exploitative class, scribes generated apocalyptic ideologies that situated them in the same exploited class as their constituents. Through careful historical and ideological criticism of the Psalms of Solomon, Parables of Enoch, Testament of Moses, and Q source, Keddie identifies an internally diverse tradition of apocalyptic class rhetoric in late Second Temple Judaism" ...
SN  - 9789004383647
UR  - http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004383647
UR  - https://brill.com/abstract/title/39254
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004383647
DO  - 10.1163/9789004383647
LA  - English
N1  - by G. Anthony Keddie
ID  - 1029947694
ER  -