Review of Wasserman, Apocalypse as Holy War

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Review | Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul (D. Clint Burnett).

Emma Wasserman. Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul. Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.

In Apocalypse as Holy War, Wasserman argues that the dominant scholarly approach to Jewish apocalypticism is uncritical and unsupported by our ancient Jewish sources, including Paul’s (undisputed) letters. ...

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