Revealed Histories

Download or read book Revealed Histories written by Robert Hall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Jewish and Christian writers frequently sought to persuade by claiming to understand the past through revelation. Hall shows how the long recitals of past events often found in apocalypses are not to be seen as mere preludes to predictions, but prove integral to the author's argument. This original study concludes that many ancient Jews and Christians found claims to inspiration an acceptable basis for re-telling past events and that early Christian prophets consciously shaped not only the sayings of Jesus but the narrative structure in which the sayings occur.