The Apocalypse
A Brief History
Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
1. Edition January 2010
192 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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
Chronology
1. Revelation in the Age of the Torah
2. The Book of the Watchers and Ascent to
Heaven
3. The Book of Daniel and the Kingdom of the Holy Ones
4. The Heavenly Messiah
5. The Heavenly Temple, the Fate of Souls after Death, and
Cosmology
6. Tours of Paradise and Hell and the Hekhalot Texts
7. Eschatology in the Byzantine Empire
8. Apocalyptic Movements in the Modern Era
Further Reading
Index
those which are yet to come." (Theological Book Review,
2010)
"The author is an expert guide who both clears away the brushwood
that can obscure our vision and also identifies and outlines the
really important milestones. Written in an accessible style and
uncluttered by detail, thisan excellent example of a scholar making
available to a wide audience the fruits of her considerable
academic labours in a field that has significant contemporary
relevance."
--Kenneth Newport, Liverpool Hope University
