Aux commencements astrologiques de l’apocalyptique juive

The astrological beginnings of Jewish Apocalyptic thought Often presented as a break with the rest of the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament) and the New Testament because it is a literature of crisis, Jewish Apocalyptic texts in Antiquity also fit into an intellectual continuum: it aims at understanding and extending the Prophetic and wisdom traditions. One of the driving forces behind this permanence is initially to be found outside ancient Judaism, as attested by the Qumrân manuscripts 4Q208 and 4Q209. As prodromes to the Treaty on Astronomy (1 Enoch 72-82), they bear witness to the influence of conceptions of time and duration in Mesopotamian astronomy, mathematics and astrology before they were intentionally integrated in the Jewish Apocalypse.