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The apocalypse : a brief history / Martha Himmelfarb.

By: Himmelfarb, Martha, 1952-Contributor(s): Wiley InterScience (Online service)Material type: Text

TextSeries: Blackwell brief histories of religionPublisher: Chichester ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010Description: 1 online resource (x, 178 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781444318210; 1444318217; 9781444318227; 1444318225; 9781405113465; 1405113464; 9781405113472; 1405113472; 1282491253; 9781282491250Subject(s): Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism | BIBLES -- General | RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- General | RELIGION -- Biblical Reference | Apocalyptic literature | Apocalyptiek | JodendomGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Geschiedenis (vorm)Additional physical formats: Print version:: Apocalypse.DDC classification: 220/.046 LOC classification: BL501 | .H55 2010Other classification: 11.33 | 11.46 Online resources: Wiley Online Library

Contents:

Revelation in the age of the Torah -- The book of the watchers and ascent to heaven -- The book of Daniel and the kingdom of the holy ones -- The heavenly Messiah -- The heavenly temple, the fate of souls after death, and cosmology -- Tours of paradise and hell and the Hekhalot texts -- Eschatology in the Byzantine Empire -- Apocalyptic movements in the modern era.

Summary: 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 t.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 t.

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