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Konteks(te) waarbinne Apokaliptiese geskrifte gedurende die intertestamentêre periode floreer het
Abstract
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 was 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.
HTS Theological Studies/Teologiese Studies Vol. 64 (3) 2008: pp. 1-19
