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Apocalyptic literature

This article is about the genre of religious writings dealing with revelation. For the final book of the New Testament, see Book of Revelation. For the genre of fiction dealing with cataclysm, see Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction.
Woodcut image of Daniel, sleeping, while four beasts watch.
The Book of Daniel is one of the earliest instances of apocalyptic literature within the Abrahamic traditions.

Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed in post-Exilic Jewish culture and was popular among millennialist early Christians. Apocalypse (Ancient Greek: ἀποκάλυψις, romanized: apokálupsis) is a Greek word meaning "revelation", "an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling".[1]

As a genre, apocalyptic literature details the authors' visions of the end times/end of the age as revealed by an angel or other heavenly messenger.[2] The apocalyptic literature of Judaism and Christianity embraces a considerable period, from the centuries following the Babylonian exile down to the close of the Middle Ages.[3]

  1. ^ Goswiller 1987 p.3
  2. ^ Coogan 2009 p 424
  3. ^ Charles 1911, p. 169.

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