Discusses apocalyptic literature by focusing upon the ancient texts in relationship to the social milieu.
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"Demonstrates how conflict between a human adept as the divine warrior and an otherworldly antagonist plays a key role in early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic accounts"--Provided by publisher.
Introduction -- Last men -- Catastrophe without event: imagining climate disaster -- Survival: the biopolitics of catastrophe -- The future of things: accidents and technical safety -- The paradoxes of prediction -- Conclusion
In The Future as Catastrophe, Eva Horn offers a novel critique of the modern fascination with disaster, which she treats as a symptom of our relationship to the future. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its cultural and historical roots in Romanticism and the figure of t…
"Breaking with common views on Jewish proto-apocalyptic literature, in a postmodern manner, this work intertextually approaches one particular proto-apocalyptic text, Isaiah 24-27, the so-called 'Isaiah Apocalypse'. This reading finds that the Isaiah Apocalypse redeploys and con…
This volume includes papers on ancient apocalypticism and eschatology in the crucial period prior to the advent of Islam in the Mediterranean basin, and through the period (the sixth to the eighth centuries) when this new religion took roots and established itself in the area. A…
Apocalypticism and eschatology in late Antiquity: encounters in the Abrahamic religions, 6th-8th ce…
by Lady Margaret Hall (University of Oxford), Visions of the End: Apocalypticism and Eschatology in the Abrahamic Religions (Conference), Oxford, England)
fromLate antique history and religion
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"This volume includes papers on ancient apocalypticism and eschatology in the crucial period prior to the advent of Islam in the Mediterranean basin, and through the period (the sixth to the eighth centuries) when this new religion took roots and established itself in the area. …
For most of us, "Apocalypse" suggests the cataclysmic end of the world. Yet in Greek "apocalypse" means "revelation," and the real subject of the Book of Revelation is how the sacred arises in history at a moment of crisis and destiny. With origins in ancient religions, the apoc…
