Jewish Apocalyptics: Psalms of Solomon

JEWISH SOURCES

Agrippa II
Queen Bernice
Herod the Great
James
King Jesus
Josephus
Apostle John
Justus of Tiberias
Matthew
Apostle Paul
Apostle Peter
Alfred Edersheim

CHURBAN HABAYIT
"DESTRUCTION OF THE HOUSE"
On Tisha Be'AV

Die Zerst�rung des Tempels von Jerusalem - Francesco Hayez (1867)

Historical Jewish Sources
Apocalyptic Genre: "Turn of Era" Lit. Exploring Eschatological Salvation

Torah - Or "TaNaKh", an acronym denoting these three sections:
    - Torah (Teaching)
    - Nevi�im (Prophets) - Former (Deuteronomic Code); Latter (Literary)
     - Ketuvim (Writings) Canonical Collection From Post-Prophetic Age
Talmud - Documents that Comment and Expand Upon Mishnah
      - Mishnah 1st-2nd Century Rabbinic Study Book of Laws/Values
      - Gamara (Agadah - Tales and Morals ; Halacha - Code of Jewish Law)
          - Babylonian ("Bavli") Gemara (200-600)
          - Palestinian ("Yerushalmi") Gemara (200-500)
Midrash Exegetical Interpretation of the Torah's Text
      - Halakhah - Interpreting Law and Religious Practice
      - Aggadah - Biblical Narrative ; Ethics, Theology, Homily (200-1000)
Targums - Translations of the Bible into Jewish Aramaic
Dead Sea Scrolls - Collection of Materials Found in Judean Desert
Josephus - One of World's All-Time Greatest Non-Biblical Historians
Apocalyptic Genre - "Turn of Era" Lit. Exploring Eschatological Salvation
Liturgical Texts - Routine Prayers Said Spontaneously
Reference Works - Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Concordances

Jewish Apocalyptic Genre:
"Psalms of Solomon"

Book of Daniel - Final Edit (165 BC)
I Enoch or Ethiopic Enoch (165 BC)
Sibylline Oracles, Book III (from c. 150 BC onwards)
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (c. 109 BC)
Psalms of Solomon (70-40 B.C.)
Book of Jubilees (40-10 BC)
Assumption of Moses (AD 6-30)
'Martyrdom of Isaiah'
Apocalypse of John (AD 66-68)
Life of Adam and Eve or The Apocalypse of Moses (shortly before AD70)
Apocalypse of Abraham 9-32 (AD 70-100)
Testament of Abraham (first century AD)
Second Enoch (Slavonic); Book of the Secrets of Enoch (First C. AD)
The Ascension of Isaiah (First C. AD)
Sibylline Oracles, Book IV (AD 80).
Second Esdras [IV Ezra] 3-14 (AD 90),
Second Baruch (after AD 70)
III Baruch (Second C. AD)
Sibylline Oracles, Book V (Second C. AD)

APOCALYPTIC:

"a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal, insofar as it envisages eschatological salvation, and spatial insofar as it involves another, supernatural world." Renan

Note: The literary genre called 'apocalyptic' is collected and organized here in such a way as to show the progression of eschatological thought in the late Second Temple period. One goal will be to show the writers' expectations of an imminent end, and how the ultimate expectation of a 'final end of the world' in the events surrounding the great eschatological event (the conquering of the Gentiles to them, the fall of Jerusalem and its temple to us) was a misapprehension of the nature of fulfillment found in the advent of Jesus Christ - who was denied as the Way of Victory. Another goal will be to show how the demise of apocalyptic literature following the final end of the Jewish state lends support to the Preterist idea of prophetic fulfillment associated with that desolation. Christian works written in the first generation following AD70 -- most of which display the sense of vindication felt as a result of the fall of Jerusalem -- will be presented as the capstone of the apocalyptic genre.

Psalms of Solomon

WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID

Stanley Paher
"Other Jewish intertestimentary writings further show hatred for Rome, "the sinner Who broke down the strong walls [of Jerusalem] with a battering ram..." (Psalms of Solomon 2: 1). " (A.D.70 Doctrine)

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