Much study has taken place of the prophetic and apocalyptic writings in recent decades, but the relationship between the two has been little explored. A major explicit debate on the question is very much needed, -- and is now provided.

I. Introduction; Lester L. Grabbe: Introduction and Overview; John J. Collins: Prophecy, Apocalypse and Eschatology: Reflections on the Proposals of Lester Grabbe; II. Articles; David E. Aune: Transformations of Apocalypticism in Early Christianity; Alice Ogden Bellis: The Changing Face of Babylon in Prophetic/Apocalyptic Literature: Seventh Century BCE to First Century CE and Beyond; John J. Collins: The Eschatology of Zechariah; Stephen L. Cook: Mythological Discourse in Ezekiel and Daniel and the Rise of Apocalypticism in Israel; Lester L. Grabbe: Prophetic and Apocalyptic: Time for New Definitions-and New Thinking; Martti Nissinen: Neither Prophecies nor Apocalypses: The Akkadian Literary Predictive Texts; Christopher Rowland: Apocalypse, Revelation and the New Testament; Marvin J. Sweeney: The Priesthood and the Proto-Apocalyptic Reading of Prophetic and Pentateuchal Texts; James D. Tabor: Are You the One? The Textual Dynamics of Messianic Self-Identity; III. Appendix; Lester L. Grabbe: Poets, Scribes, or Preachers? The Reality of Prophecy in the Second Temple Period

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