Introduction and overview - Lester L. Grabbe -- - Prophecy, apocalypse, and eschatology: reflections on the proposals of Lester Grabbe - John J. Collins -- - Transformations of apocalypticism in early Christianity - David E. Aune -- - The changing face of Babylon in prophetic/apocalyptic literature : seventh century BCE to first century CE and beyond - Alice Ogden Bellis -- - The eschatology of Zechariah - John J. Collins -- - Mythological discourse in Ezekiel and Daniel and the rise of apocalypticism in Israel - Stephen L. Cook -- - Phophetic and apocalyptic : time for new definitions, and new thinking - Lester L. Grabbe -- - Neither phophecies nor apocalypses : the Akkadian literary predictive texts - Martti Nissinen -- - Apocalypse, prophecy, and the New Testament - Christopher Rowland -- - The priesthood and the proto-apocalyptic reading of prophetic and pentateuchal texts - Marvin A. Sweeney -- - Are you the one? The textual dynamnics of messianic self-identity - James D. Tabor -- - Appendix: Poets, scribes, or preachers? The reality of prophecy in the second temple period - Lester L. Grabbe