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The Apocalypse: A Brief History (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion)
The Apocalypse A Brief History - Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
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 Chr...  more »
  • 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
ISBN-13: 9781405113472
ISBN-10: 1405113472
Publication Date: 1/19/2010
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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