Man this takes so much longer than I expected. The edge of every card is the full saturation colour. The middles are the colour mixed with 50% black or white to get a better sense of undertones. About 3 full cards left before I finish the full set.
Then I plan to start making palette cards. Wish me luck.
Picked this up at an estate pretty much just because I love old illustrated stuff.
Where did these notions emerge from and what were the conditions they festered (that’s a very negative word but seems appropriate to my meaning) under?
It’s easy to see on some surface level how Christian apocalypticism is rooted in prexisting notions and imagery taken from Judaism, though modern soteriology and eschatology between Judaism and Christianity is significantly different. It’s not unique for groups of people especially in earlier history to frame their hardships and sufferings as physical manifestations of a spiritual, supernatural/cosmic battle. But judeo-Christian ideas, at least to me, seem to take the theme much further/more intensely.
I’d love to learn more about the origins of Jewish apocalyptic philosophy and eschatology and how it may have developed or changed over different periods, but am particularly interested in the turn taken by Jesus’ message and the epistles/New Testament authors. While the gospels and epistles clearly laid a foundation of beliefs distinct from second temple Judaism, how different or similar would those the apocalyptic themes have been from the general (scholarly) Jewish thought at the time?