Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

The Quest for Excellence in Jewish Children’s Literature

When book selectors, book award judges, and reviewers seek to identify excellence in Jewish children’s literature, they must look beyond the accepted criteria for literary and artistic quality. This article discusses that criteria and focuses on the special elements that contribute to excellence in the Jewish content of books for children and teens.

Millennial Tendencies in Responses to Apocalyptic Threats

Since Aaron Wildavsky proposed in 1987 that cultural orientations such as egalitarianism and individualism frame public perceptions of technological risks, a body of empirical research has grown to affirm the risk-framing effects of personality and culture (Dake, 1991; Gastil et al., 2005; Kahan, 2008). Most of these studies have focused on relatively mundane risks, however, such as handguns, n...

Psychoanalytic Pure War: Interactions with the Post-Apocalyptic Unconscious

Apocalyptic Transformation in Paul’s Discourse on the Cross1

WHEN PAUL WRITES HIS DISCOURSE ON THE CROSS IN 1 CORINTHIANS 1-2, HE IS addressing a church divided by competing ideologies and ego struggles. The issues that divide the Corinthians are familiar enough in our own day: in chapter 1, it is baptism; in chapters 9-11, the Lord’s supper; in chapters 12-14, ministry and worship. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 reveal that Paul’s hearers are divided about sexual...

The Theme of Apocalyptic War in the Dead Sea Scrolls

The theme of apocalyptic war was widely developed in Qumran literature. The main source of information about the apocalyptic war can be found in lQM, whch Sukenrk named "The War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness."' According to Paolo Sacchi, "The word 'apocalyptic' is a modern invention, deriving from the wish to conceptualize the field of research on the affinities between the ...