...Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984), 2-24. Collins, Daniel, 4, follows his earlier definition of apocalypse as "a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative...framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a Apocalypses" (containing a review of history)...

...useful definition and classification of the apocalyptic genre. According to this author, "Apocalypse is a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal,...

...lower level of abstraction. 1n Semeia 14 (p. 9) the genre was defined as follows: " 'Apocalypse' is a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative...framework , in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal,...

...pagan writings from late antiquity, reached the following, tentative, genre definition: 'Apocalypse' is a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal,...

...Funk, ed., Apocalypticism, pp. 134-56. Recently, scholars have begun to define apocalypse as a genre: "revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal,...

...Genre", Semeia 14 (Apocalypse: The Morphology of a Genre), 1979, pp. 1-20; ibid., p. 9. "'Apocalypse' is a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal,...

...constant elements permits us... to formulate a comprehensive definition of the genre: "Apocalypse" is a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal,...

...Society of Biblical Literature led by John J. Collins of the University of Notre Dame: "Apocalypse" is a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal,...

...His research directs him to the following "comprehensive" definition of the genre: "Apocalyptic" is a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a 101. Hanson, Dawn of Apocalyptic, 111. 102. Ibid., 111-12. 103. Collins, "Methodological...

...comprehensive yet more exact, proposed by the Society of Biblical Literature Genres Project: "Apocalypse" is a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal, insofar...