Part I. INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS

1 INTRODUCTION
- Lester L. Grabbe, Professor Em., University of Hull, UK
2 THE SELEUCID AND HASMONEAN PERIODS AND THE APOCALYPTIC WORLDVIEW--AN OVERVIEW
- Lester L. Grabbe, Professor Em., University of Hull, UK
3 NON-APOCALYPTIC RESPONSES TO APOCALYPTIC EVENTS: NOTES ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF APOCALYPTICISM
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA

Part II. MAJOR PAPERS AND RESPONSES

4 UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE APOCALPTIC WORLDVIEW AND JEWISH SECTARIAN VIOLENCE: THE CASE OF THE WAR BETWEEN ALEXANDER JANNAEUS AND DEMETRIUS III
- Kenneth Atkinson, University of Northern Iowa, USA
RESPONSE TO ATKINSON, Albert I. Baumgarten, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
RESPONSE TO ATKINSON, Sandra Gambetti, City University of New York (CUNY), USA
5 WAS THE MACCABEAN REVOLT AN APOCALYPTIC MOVEMENT?
- Gerbern S. Oegema, Mcgill University, Canada
RESPONSE TO OEGEMA
- Lorenzo DiTommaso, Concordia University, Canada
RESPONSE TO OEGEMA
- John Kampen, Methodist Theological School, USA
6 APOCALYPTIC WORLDVIEWS--WHAT THEY ARE AND HOW THEY SPREAD: INSIGHTS FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Anathea E. Portier-Young, Duke Divinity School, USA
RESPONSE TO PORTIER-YOUNG
-Edward Dabrowa, Jagiellonian University, Poland
RESPONSE TO PORTIER-YOUNG
-Torleif Elgvin, NLA University College, Norway

7 OVERALL RESPONSE TO THE MAIN PAPERS
- Erich Gruen, University of California, USA

Part III. SHORT PAPERS


Part IV. CONCLUSIONS
PERSPECTIVES ON APOCALYPTIC IN THE HASMONAEAN PERIOD
Lester L. Grabbe, Professor Em., University of Hull, UK.