Apocalypse

A Brief History

AvMartha Himmelfarb

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Del 31 i serien Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion

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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 literatureShows 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 natureTraces the tradition of apocalyptic writing through the Middle Ages, through to the modern era, when social movements still prophesise the world’s imminent demise

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-01-12
Mått:147 x 224 x 22 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781405113465

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion
Judendom inom Filosofi och religion

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Martha 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).

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"This is certainly a valuable addition. We look forward to those which are yet to come." (Theological Book Review, 2010)

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Chronology1. Revelation in the Age of the Torah2. The Book of the Watchers and Ascent to Heaven3. The Book of Daniel and the Kingdom of the Holy Ones4. The Heavenly Messiah5. The Heavenly Temple, the Fate of Souls after Death, and Cosmology6. Tours of Paradise and Hell and the Hekhalot Texts7. Eschatology in the Byzantine Empire8. Apocalyptic Movements in the Modern EraFurther ReadingIndex