Lorenzo Ditommaso
Biographic Data
| ID | 958331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorenzo Ditommaso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorenzo |
| FAMILY NAME | Ditommaso |
| SIGNATURE | DITOMMASO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5561-7986 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Apocalypses and apocalyptic
The Semeia 14 definition of the genre apocalypse (1979) is a landmark in the study of early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature. In a recent article in this journal, Benjamin E. Reynolds argues that scholars have over-emphasized the definition’s temporal component against its spatial component, and the eschatology of texts against their form. This imbalance has resulted in the misidentification of the genre and the misapplication of the l…
Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages
Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages: Prophets and Their Critics from Scholasticism to Humanism. Brian FitzGerald. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xi + 278 pp. $84.99. - Volume 76 Issue 1
The Additions to Daniel
The ancient Greek versions of Daniel contain three extended passages that are not included in the Hebrew-Aramaic (MT) version of the book. These “Additions” to Daniel consist of the tale of Susanna (= LXX Daniel 1), the Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Young Men (LXX Dan 3:24–90), and the tales of Bel and the Dragon (LXX Daniel 14). Daniel is one of several biblical books that contain additional material in their Greek versions (cf. Es…
Reading Revelation after Supersessionism
Reading Revelation after Supersessionism: An Apocalyptic Journey of Socially Identifying John’s Multi-Ethnic Ekklesia with the Ekklesia of Israel, by Ralph Korner. Cascade, 2020. 312 pp., Kindle., $9.99. ISBN: 978-1-7252-7465-5
A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus n…
Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
Apocalyptic Historiography
Die apokalyptische Perspektive auf die Geschichte ist Ausdruck der apokalyptischen Weltanschauung und ihrer axiomatischen Aussagen. Zeit und Geschichte sind Eigenschaften der irdischen Realität: Sie sind endlich und verlaufen linear und unidirektional. Die apokalyptische Literatur behauptet, die wahre Bedeutung der Geschichte zu kennen, die der Gruppe, für die sie bestimmt ist, in Form einer Offenbarung aus der transzendenten Realität vermittelt …
Jonathan A. Moo
With Letters of Light
From Utopia to Apocalypse
The use of utopian fiction as a vehicle for social commentary stretches back to Thomas More's Utopia, Giordano Bruno's Spaccio de la bestia trionfante, and Roger Bacon's New Atlantis. Modern classics of the genre, more often dystopian than utopian, include Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. This fine book by Peter Y. Paik extends the study of this tradition into the area of co…
The Old Testament Apocrypha in the Slavonic Tradition
Written by an international group of expert scholars, the essays in this volume are devoted to the topic of biblical apocrypha, particularly the »Old Testament Pseudepigrapha,« within the compass of the Slavonic tradition. The authors examine ancient texts, such as 2 Enoch and the Apocalypse of Abraham , which have been preserved (sometimes uniquely) in Slavonic witnesses and versions, as well as apocryphal literature that was composed within the…
The Old Testament Apocrypha in the Slavonic Tradition
International experts examine ancient texts, such as 2 Enoch and the Apocalypse of Abraham, which have been preserved (sometimes uniquely) in Slavonic witnesses and versions, as well as apocryphal literature that was composed within the rich Slavonic tradition from the early Byzantine period onwards.
Apocalyptic Eschatology and The Transcendence of Death in William Gibson's Neuromancer
The Dead Sea 'New Jerusalem' Text
This volume is the first study of the Aramaic Dead Sea New Jerusalem text conducted in light of the complete extent of the preserved manuscript copies and with full reference to previous reconstructions. In addition to presenting an edition of the Cave Four copies (4Q554, 4Q554a, 4Q555), Lorenzo DiTommaso discusses the genre of the NJ , the order of its material, and its antecedents and parallels in ancient urban design. He suggests that its New …
The Book of Daniel and the Apocryphal Daniel Literature
This volume illuminates the full extent of the corpus of ancient and mediaeval apocryphal Daniel literature
Gnosticism and Dualism in the Early Fiction of Philip K. Dick
The gnostic Christian themes that so characterize Philip K. Dick’s later writings find their first manifestation in his early fiction, albeit in simplistic and undeveloped forms. This essay identifies the dualistic elements in Dick’s pre-Time Out of Joint (1959) short stories and novels, thereby continuing the line of inquiry established by the author in earlier essays on the topic. Certain methodological issues are addressed as well, including t…
Redemption in Philip K. Dick'S The Man in the High Castle
Man in the High Castleis not a systematic theological tractate on the order of VALIS. It does, however, encompass significant amounts of basic Taoist and Christian theology. On the one hand, none of Dick's other novels comes close to containing the number of explicit references in MHC to Taoism, and the importance of these to the understanding of the novel has not been overlooked. On the other hand, the role of Christian theology in MHC has been …
History and Historical Effect in Frank Herbert’s Dune
This essay examines the complex relationship between the many plots and themes of Dune and the history of the Imperium as created by Frank Herbert in the novel. Also, the “Vitality struggle” is put forth as a major theme of the book, as it is an omnipresent and fundamental conflict which significantly shapes the actions and ideas of Dune, and is itself determined by the very Imperial history that created it. The Vitality struggle, which involves …
From Utopia to Apocalypse
The use of utopian fiction as a vehicle for social commentary stretches back to Thomas More's Utopia, Giordano Bruno's Spaccio de la bestia trionfante, and Roger Bacon's New Atlantis. Modern classics of the genre, more often dystopian than utopian, include Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. This fine book by Peter Y. Paik extends the study of this tradition into the area of co…
Redemption in Philip K. Dick'S The Man in the High Castle
Man in the High Castleis not a systematic theological tractate on the order of VALIS. It does, however, encompass significant amounts of basic Taoist and Christian theology. On the one hand, none of Dick's other novels comes close to containing the number of explicit references in MHC to Taoism, and the importance of these to the understanding of the novel has not been overlooked. On the other hand, the role of Christian theology in MHC has been …
History and Historical Effect in Frank Herbert’s Dune
This essay examines the complex relationship between the many plots and themes of Dune and the history of the Imperium as created by Frank Herbert in the novel. Also, the “Vitality struggle” is put forth as a major theme of the book, as it is an omnipresent and fundamental conflict which significantly shapes the actions and ideas of Dune, and is itself determined by the very Imperial history that created it. The Vitality struggle, which involves …
Redemption in Philip K. Dick'S The Man in the High Castle
Man in the High Castleis not a systematic theological tractate on the order of VALIS. It does, however, encompass significant amounts of basic Taoist and Christian theology. On the one hand, none of Dick's other novels comes close to containing the number of explicit references in MHC to Taoism, and the importance of these to the understanding of the novel has not been overlooked. On the other hand, the role of Christian theology in MHC has been …
Gnosticism and Dualism in the Early Fiction of Philip K. Dick
The gnostic Christian themes that so characterize Philip K. Dick’s later writings find their first manifestation in his early fiction, albeit in simplistic and undeveloped forms. This essay identifies the dualistic elements in Dick’s pre-Time Out of Joint (1959) short stories and novels, thereby continuing the line of inquiry established by the author in earlier essays on the topic. Certain methodological issues are addressed as well, including t…
The Dead Sea 'New Jerusalem' Text
This volume is the first study of the Aramaic Dead Sea New Jerusalem text conducted in light of the complete extent of the preserved manuscript copies and with full reference to previous reconstructions. In addition to presenting an edition of the Cave Four copies (4Q554, 4Q554a, 4Q555), Lorenzo DiTommaso discusses the genre of the NJ , the order of its material, and its antecedents and parallels in ancient urban design. He suggests that its New …
The Book of Daniel and the Apocryphal Daniel Literature
This volume illuminates the full extent of the corpus of ancient and mediaeval apocryphal Daniel literature
The Old Testament Apocrypha in the Slavonic Tradition
Written by an international group of expert scholars, the essays in this volume are devoted to the topic of biblical apocrypha, particularly the »Old Testament Pseudepigrapha,« within the compass of the Slavonic tradition. The authors examine ancient texts, such as 2 Enoch and the Apocalypse of Abraham , which have been preserved (sometimes uniquely) in Slavonic witnesses and versions, as well as apocryphal literature that was composed within the…
The Old Testament Apocrypha in the Slavonic Tradition
International experts examine ancient texts, such as 2 Enoch and the Apocalypse of Abraham, which have been preserved (sometimes uniquely) in Slavonic witnesses and versions, as well as apocryphal literature that was composed within the rich Slavonic tradition from the early Byzantine period onwards.
Apocalyptic Eschatology and The Transcendence of Death in William Gibson's Neuromancer
With Letters of Light
From Utopia to Apocalypse
The use of utopian fiction as a vehicle for social commentary stretches back to Thomas More's Utopia, Giordano Bruno's Spaccio de la bestia trionfante, and Roger Bacon's New Atlantis. Modern classics of the genre, more often dystopian than utopian, include Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. This fine book by Peter Y. Paik extends the study of this tradition into the area of co…
Jonathan A. Moo
A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus n…
Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
Apocalyptic Historiography
Die apokalyptische Perspektive auf die Geschichte ist Ausdruck der apokalyptischen Weltanschauung und ihrer axiomatischen Aussagen. Zeit und Geschichte sind Eigenschaften der irdischen Realität: Sie sind endlich und verlaufen linear und unidirektional. Die apokalyptische Literatur behauptet, die wahre Bedeutung der Geschichte zu kennen, die der Gruppe, für die sie bestimmt ist, in Form einer Offenbarung aus der transzendenten Realität vermittelt …
The Additions to Daniel
The ancient Greek versions of Daniel contain three extended passages that are not included in the Hebrew-Aramaic (MT) version of the book. These “Additions” to Daniel consist of the tale of Susanna (= LXX Daniel 1), the Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Young Men (LXX Dan 3:24–90), and the tales of Bel and the Dragon (LXX Daniel 14). Daniel is one of several biblical books that contain additional material in their Greek versions (cf. Es…
Reading Revelation after Supersessionism
Reading Revelation after Supersessionism: An Apocalyptic Journey of Socially Identifying John’s Multi-Ethnic Ekklesia with the Ekklesia of Israel, by Ralph Korner. Cascade, 2020. 312 pp., Kindle., $9.99. ISBN: 978-1-7252-7465-5
Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages
Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages: Prophets and Their Critics from Scholasticism to Humanism. Brian FitzGerald. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xi + 278 pp. $84.99. - Volume 76 Issue 1
Apocalypses and apocalyptic
The Semeia 14 definition of the genre apocalypse (1979) is a landmark in the study of early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature. In a recent article in this journal, Benjamin E. Reynolds argues that scholars have over-emphasized the definition’s temporal component against its spatial component, and the eschatology of texts against their form. This imbalance has resulted in the misidentification of the genre and the misapplication of the l…
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