The Apocalypse by Himmelfarb, Martha

The Apocalypse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405113472)

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The Apocalypse by Himmelfarb, Martha

The Apocalypse

$43.95
The Apocalypse by Himmelfarb, Martha

The Apocalypse

$43.95
Format: Paperback
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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 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


Author: Martha Himmelfarb
ISBN-10: 1405113472
ISBN-13: 9781405113472
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2010
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d
By Martha Himmelfarb
By Martha Himmelfarb
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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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