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The apocalypse : a brief history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Himmelfarb, Martha, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Series:Blackwell brief histories of religion.
Subjects:
Apocalyptic literature > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Revelation in the age of the Torah
  • The book of the watchers and ascent to heaven
  • The book of Daniel and the kingdom of the holy ones
  • The heavenly Messiah
  • The heavenly temple, the fate of souls after death, and cosmology
  • Tours of paradise and hell and the Hekhalot texts
  • Eschatology in the Byzantine Empire
  • Apocalyptic movements in the modern era.