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Konteks(te) waarbinne apokaliptiese geskrifte gedurende die intertestamentere periode floreer het

Marius Nel
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies | Vol 64, No 3 | a78 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v64i3.78 | © 2008 Marius Nel | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 15 January 2008 | Published: 04 March 2008

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Marius Nel, Noordwes-Universiteit, Potchefstroomkampus, South Africa

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Socio-economic context(s) within which apocalyptic texts flourished during the inter-testamentary period

Social contexts form the perspective or symbolic framework of interpretation in which texts are to be read and understood because these texts originated within these contexts. An important question in the research into Jewish apocalyptic texts which originated in the period from 200 BCE to 100 CE is: What were the socio-economic context or contexts within which these texts originated and functioned? Various answers have been given: Apocalyptic has been viewed as the result of the wisdom tradition, of a pessimistic view of history, as a continuation and discontinuation with prophecy, as a reinstitution of myth in Hebrew thinking, as a result of orientation to a symbolic universe oriented to a supernatural world, and as a sociological matrix of alienation. Today many researchers agree that the origins of apocalyptic can only be described in terms of each apocalypse itself, in the light of Jewish experience during the Seleucid and Hasmonean periods.

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