The Corruption and Redemption of Creation: Nature in Romans 8.19-22 and Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

by Harry Alan Hahne

Nature plays an important and often neglected role in Jewish apocalypses. Most Second Temple Jewish apocalypses (ca. 200 BC - AD 100) do not oppose the material world, but view nature as damaged by human and angelic sin. Rather than expecting God to destroy the world, many look forward to God's dramatic eschatological deliverance of nature from corruption. Although Romans 8:19-22 was not written in the genre of an apocalypse, it shares the basic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567030555
• ISBN13: 9780567030559
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"