The Apocalypse
A Brief History

"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

Martha Himmelfarb (Author)

9781405113472, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 12 January 2010

192 pages
21.7 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.254 kg

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

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

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Subject Areas: Religion & beliefs [HR]