Corruption and Redemption of Creation
Nature plays an important and often neglected role in Jewish apocalypses. Most Second Temple Jewish apocalypses (ca. 200 BC - AD 100) do not oppose the material world, but view nature as damaged by human and angelic sin. Rather than expecting God to destroy the world, many look forward to God''s dramatic eschatological deliverance of nature from corruption. Although Romans 8:19-22 was not written ...
Nature plays an important and often neglected role in Jewish apocalypses. Most Second Temple Jewish apocalypses (ca. 200 BC - AD 100) do not oppose the material world, but view nature as damaged by human and angelic sin. Rather than expecting God to destroy the world, many look forward to God''s dramatic eschatological deliverance of nature from corruption. Although Romans 8:19-22 was not written ...
