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Overview"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" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Martha Himmelfarb (Princeton University, USA)Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.70cm Weight: 0.254kg ISBN: 9781405113472ISBN 10: 1405113472 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 12 January 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 IndexReviewsThis is certainly a valuable addition. We look forward to those which are yet to come. ( Theological Book Review , 2010) This is certainly a valuable addition. We look forward to 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 This is certainly a valuable addition. We look forward to those which are yet to come. (Theological Book Review, 2010) Author InformationMartha Himmelfarb is the William H. Danforth Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Her work has focused on Judaism of the Second Temple period and apocalyptic literature in particular. She is the author of Tours of Hell: An Apocalyptic Form in Jewish and Christian Literature (1985), Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (1993), and A Kingdom of Priests: Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism (2006). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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