Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (Schweich Lectures) Book

THE BRITISH ACADEMY Jewish and Christian Apocalypses F. Crawforcl Burkitt, M. A., D. D. PREFACE I I I S book co ltainst l ctl lrec Schjrcich Lectures for 1913, printed i l llosets actl. is they n-ere dclivcrcd 1 tst November. The only ch ungc of importance is that I havc divided thc third 1, ecturc into its two constituent parts, so as to keep the specifically Christian variety of Apocalypse in a class by itself. In the T, ectures I attempted to confine myself as ui uch as possil le to mhat I believe to be the fundamei tal idea which underlies the great scries of Jewish Apoc tly ses, vi,,. the idea of the imrrtineiit tJudgement to Conre, and fitrtlrer to exhibit this Idea ill coni cxion with what I believe to be both its true historical setting m dth e 111tilnate cause of its inanifestntion. That mhich givcs the Apocnlypses vitality is the great strrlggle betveen Ileligion and Civilization, of which the Jlaccabean Alnrtyrs nre the symbol. I omit the adjectires. Rfy readers thetnsclvcs, according as they view the thing, can say between spiritual Religion aid material Civilization or between fanatical Iteligion and enlightened Civilisation,-and they will judge the Apocalypses accordingly. But it seemed to me worth while to exhibit the Apocalypses as clearly as possible from this quite definite and particular point of view, and therefore I found it inadvisable to cxpand , hat I had said by iiltroducing other points of view or lnore details into the r i n t c dfo rm of the Lectures. What 1 have addecl will be found in the separate Appei dices. These will, I hope, csl lain themselves to the s1 ecialists for whom they were pimarily written. They will at lcast serve to shcw that I hare not ventured to make sweeping g ncralisations about this department of ancient literature vithont inalting a sornewhat minute htudy of the principal documents. Thc year 1913 saw a grand edition of all the Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudcpig apha brought out under the able and stimulati egdi torship of Dr, no vC anon, It. 11. Charles. Students of TO THE IEJIOKY 01. SARIUEL ROLLES DRIVER THl PIRSI OF TIIE SClil EICM LI lITIll. RS I IX , . m , v5 3aryn 2 n 7 n i 1 1 nysinl nsy rmn Aboth the Book of Enoch are under a leel debt of to l r Charles, who now has edited it three times in E lglish ant1 pl cc in Ethiopic.. 1s it not tillle that a literal English tmlislation r hould he accessible to all Ioor students of theology can 11c expected to havc rettcl I nniel, for it is in the 13ible thep can he exl, ec. tcJ to hare read Secolld Esdrns, for it is at least in the Apoc. ryph t .Read More