A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life: In Israel, in Judaism, and in Christianity

This work details the Hebrew, Jewish, and Christian view of the final condition of man and of the world. R.H. Charles traces the development and historical context of eschatological doctrines from the time of Moses to the close of the New Testament. He examines the eschatology of the individual and the nation in the Old Testament, the eschatology of apocryphal and apocalyptic literature from the second century BC through the second century AD, the eschatology of the New Testament, and the Pauline eschatology in its four stages.