Imagining the End: Visions of Apocalypse from the Ancient Middle East to Modern America
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I.B.Tauris Publishers
2002
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loginThe papers in this volume were first presented to a year-long faculty andgraduate seminar at Yale University in . Approaching millennialism fromboth textual and historical perspectives, the contributors to this volumediscussed the origins and the evolution of apocalyptic and millennial ideasand movements in the four major religious traditions of Middle Easternorigin: Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam over a long span oftime from the ancient Middle East to medieval and early modern Europe andfrom the pre-modern Islamic era to modern times. The six papers on themodern and contemporary periods examined American, African, Chinese andIranian millennialism.
