THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME: THE GENRE OF THE HISTORICAL APOCALYPSE IN ANCIENT JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN LITERATURE (APOCALYPSE, JEWISH LITERATURE).

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of the historical apocalypse genre, and the innovations of individual authors are noted and discussed. It is noted that the earliest historical apocalypses have a literary structure composed of multiple chiasms. The historical apocalypses written during the period of the genre's stabilization generally contain a single chiastic structure. During this period Jewish and Christian historical apocalypses can be distinguished. The Jewish apocalypses contain a historical review, the Christian ones do not. The