The Apocalypse A Brief History Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion 1st Edition by Martha Himmelfarb ISBN 1405113472 9781405113472

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ISBN 10: 1405113472

ISBN 13: 9781405113472 

Author: Martha Himmelfarb 

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

Table of contents:

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

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