1. Genre.

Apocalypse as a literary genre represents a genre of revelatory literature found predominantly in early Jewish and early Christian literature, although it is also attested in Middle Persian, Greco-Roman, and Gnostic literature. Apocalypses can appear as independent texts or compilations as parts of larger documents or other genres. In contrast to Judeo-Christian marginal groups (Mysticism; Gnosis/Gnosticism) of later t…