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- Title: Latin Apocalypse of Ezra
- Author : Scriptural Research Institute
- Release Date : January 07, 2020
- Genre: Bible Studies,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 225 KB
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In the early centuries of the Christian era, several texts called the Apocalypse of Ezra were in circulation among Jews and Christians. The popularity of the original Jewish Apocalypse of Ezra seems to have inspired several 'Christian' Apocalypses of Ezra, presumably beginning with the 'Latin' Apocalypse of Ezra which claimed to be the "second book of the prophet Ezra." This prophet Ezra is not the scribe Ezra from the Jewish scriptures, but a prophet named Ezra that lived several decades earlier.
There is no consensus of when the Latin Apocalypse of Ezra was written, however, it is a Christian era Apocalypse, that is clearly anti-Jewish in nature. The Apocalypse's claim to being the second book of the prophet Ezra implies that the author was positioning it as the sequel to the Jewish Apocalypse of Ezra, and as such it does not repeat the same material as the Jewish Apocalypse, unlike the reconstructed Greek Apocalypse. In the Latin Apocalypse, the focus is more one declaring that God had abandoned the Jews in favor of Christians, and describing the coming end of the world. This end of the world vision reads similar to the Apocalypse of John but in less detail. The four horsemen of the apocalypse are mentioned, but not as horsemen, making this Apocalyse read like a less developed version of John's Apocalypse. However, the Latin Apocalypse of Ezra also references the 'Word' which seems to be based on the Word from the Gospel of John. As the Gospel and Apocalypse of John both originated among heretical Christian and Gnostic churches in Anatolia (Turkey) in the early 2nd-century, the Latin Apocalypse would need to date to a later period. The Gospel of John was generally accepted by Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac speaking Churches by end of the 2nd-century, so if this text did originate in Syriac, it was likely not much before 200 AD.
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