Since a fuller range of Qumran sectarian and not clearly sectarian texts and recensions has recently become available to us, its implications for the comparative study of eschatological, apocalyptic and messianic ideas in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the New Testament need to be explored anew. This book situates eschatological ideas in Qumran literature between biblical tradition and developments in late Second Temple Judaism and examines how the Qumran evidence on eschatology, resurrection, apocalypticism, and messianism illuminates Palestinian Jewish settings of emerging Christianity. The present study challenges previous dichotomies between realized and futuristic eschatology, wisdom and apocalypticism and provides many new insights into intra-Jewish dimensions to eschatological ideas in Palestinian Judaism and in the early Jesus-movement.

Albert L.A. Hogeterp, Ph.D. (2004) in Biblical Studies (New Testament), University of Groningen, is postdoc researcher at the Faculteit Katholieke Theologie, Utrecht. He published a monograph on Paul and God’s Temple (Peeters, 2006) and various articles on eschatology in Qumran.

Expectations of the End
A Comparative Traditio-Historical Study of Eschatological, Apocalyptic and Messianic Ideas in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament
by Albert L.A. Hogeterp
Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 83
ISBN-13 (i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been changed from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007: 978 90 04 17177 0
ISSN: 0169-9962
Cover: Cloth with dustjacket
Number of pages: xvi, 570 pp.