APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE:
a genre of literature distinguished principally by its
mysterious allusions to the SIGNS preceding the events to occur in the last days of world
HISTORY. The Society for Biblical Literature has defined apocalyptic literature as a genre
of revelatory literature with a narrative framework where REVELATION is mediated by
otherwordly BEINGS to human recipients disclosing a transcendental REALITY that is
temporal (ESCHATOLOGICAL SALVATION) and spatial (involves another SUPERNATURAL world).