Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages (1999 Weber), book
The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature is a book by Eugen Weber.
Abstract
"The author presents apocalyptic visions and prophesies from "the ancients of the West and the Orient, ... the Jews and earliest Christians, ... Asia, Africa, and South America," and shows how these "beliefs inspired Crusades, scientific discoveries, works of art, voyages such as those of Columbus, rebellions, and reforms."--Publisher description.
Editions
Published in Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Table of contents
Chronologies and Fins de Siecle -- Apocalypses and Millenarianisms -- In Dark and Bloody Times -- Revivalists and Antichrists -- Apocalypse and Science -- Enlightenment? -- Apocalypse in Worldly Times -- Pursuits of the Millennium -- Time's Noblest Offspring -- The Twentieth Century.
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