This accessible and enlightening history provides insights into the fascinating genre
of apocalyptic literature, showing how the apocalypse encompasses far more than popular
views of the last judgment and violent end of the world might suggest.
An accessible and enlightening history of the "apocalypses"-ancient Jewish and Christian
works - providing fresh insights into the fascinating genre of literature
Shows how the apocalypses were concerned not only with popular views of the last judgment
and violent end of the world, but with reward and punishment after death, the heavenly
temple, and the revelation of astronomical phenomena and other secrets of nature Traces
the tradition of apocalyptic writing through the Middle Ages, through to the modern era,
when social movements still prophesise the world.s imminent demise.

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