John Ashton

Revealed Wisdom: Studies in Apocalyptic in Honour of Christopher Rowland John Ashton

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Until his retirement in 1996, John Ashton, M. A., D. Litt., was Lecturer in New Testament Studies in the Faculty of Theology, Oxford University, having previously taught at the Universities of London, St Andrews, and Edinburgh. He has written extensively on the Gospel of John, notably the highly acclaimed "Understanding the Fourth Gospel" and the recently published "The Gospel of John and Christian Origins." His Wilde lectures on St Paul appeared as "The Religion of Paul the Apostle."Table of Contents: John Ashton, Introduction 1. C. R. A. Morray-Jones, The Opening of Heaven in the Book of Job 2. John Barton, Ethics in Apocalyptic 3. Philip Alexander, Towards a Taxonomy of Jewish Messianisms 4. James C. VanderKam, Psalm 90 and Isaiah 65 in Jubilees 23 5. William Horbury, The Temple Library in Apocalyptic Legend 6. Andrew A. Orlov, Primordial Lights: The Logos and Adoil in the Johannine Prologue and 2 Enoch 7. Martin Goodman, The Date of 2 Baruch 8. Michael Stone, Seeing and Understanding in 4 Ezra 9. Adela Yarbro Collins, The Transformation of Paul s Apocalyptic Ideas in the First Two Centuries 10, Christopher Tuckett, Paul and Universalism 11. John Muddiman, The Reader of Mark 13:14b as the (Re-) Interpreter of Apocalyptic 12. Harold W. Attridge, Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility in the Fourth Gospel 13. John C. Reeves, Jewish Apocalyptic Lore in Early Islam 14. Bernard McGinn, The Concordist Imagination: A Theme in the History of Eschatology 15. Peter Cramer, Hope against hope: a reading of Joachim of Fiore 16. Ian Boxall, Francis of Assisi as Apocalyptic Visionary 17. Sebastian Brock, The Young Daniel: a little known Syriac apocalyptic text. Introduction and Translation 18. Robert Morgan, The Place of the Book of Revelation in a New Testament Theology 19. Lorenzo DiTommaso, Pseudonymity and the Revelation of John 20. Dan Merkur, From Seer to Saint: Psychotherapeutic Change in the Book of Revelation 21. Andrew Chester, Chaos and New Creation"Publisher Marketing: Articles on biblical books-Job, Paul, Mark, John-are accompanied by essays upon Messianism and apocalyptic ethics, plus studies on five first-century Jewish apocalypses, an early champion of Islam, two medieval Christian seers, and finally the Book of Revelation itself. Contributor Bio:  Ashton, John John Ashton is a former lecturer in New Testament studies at Oxford University. He has written extensively on the Gospel of John, including Understanding the Fourth Gospel (1991; 2nd ed. 2007) and Studying John: Approaches to the Fourth Gospel (1998).