Expectations of the End

This book provides a comparative traditio-historical study of the full range of Qumran texts and recensions now available and of New Testament texts with regard to ideas about the final age, resurrection, apocalypticism, and messianism.

Review:

'This monograph aims to integrate the full evidence of the Dead Sea Scrolls available since the 1990s into the comparative study of eschatological ideas in Second Temple Judaism and emerging Christianity. Hogeterp traces Qumran eschatology back to its scriptural bases and defines its setting in the Palestinian Judaism of the late Second Temple Period. Focusing on the issues of resurrection, apocalypticism, and messianism, Hogeterp explores how both sectarian and non-sectarian Qumran texts illuminate New Testament traditions and their Palestinian Jewish roots. He emphasizes that the variegated Qumran evidence challenges recurrent contrasts between realized and futurist eschatology, wisdom and apocalyptic, as well as political-nationalistic and prophetic-ethical messianism'.