That's certainly true, and it's a useful corrective to all the apocalyptic literature on the subject.
Helmer's scholarly interests are in early Christian origins and apocalyptic literature.
Instead it was a theological interpretation developed within the apocalyptic literature of early Judaism.
Otherwise, apocalyptic literature would have been discarded for its many instances of failed prediction.
The book is considered one of the gems of Jewish apocalyptic literature.
The word "apocalypse" is also used for other works of a similar nature in the literary genre of apocalyptic literature.
There is further information on these topics in the entries on higher criticism and apocalyptic literature.
This phrase becomes important within future prophetic and apocalyptic literature.
It typifies the earliest apocalyptic environmental literature, in which human beings are seen as destroyers of the natural world.
We're not dealing with anything predicted in apocalyptic literature.