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Last Name
GREENSPOON & SIMKINS
First Name
Leonard J., and Ronald A. , ed.
Title
Millennialism from the Hebrew Bible to the Present
Publisher
Creighton University Press
Year
1999
Group
MEX
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The Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization; Center for the Study of Religion and Society.

A Jewish response to Christian millennial fervor) Proceedings of the Conference held Oct. 10-11, 1999. Series: Studies in Jewish civilization; 12.

Contents:

  • Understanding peaceful and violent contemporary millennial movements / Catherine Wessinger
  • The dawn of the new cycle: millennial hopes and pedagogical realities / W. Michael Ashcraft
  • Where the end times begin: Jerusalem and the millennial vision of Evangelical Christians / Yaakov Ariel
  • Apocalyptic schemes and dreams: how an ancient Jewish vision of the future came to dominate the modern world / James D. Tabor
  • "Teach us to number our days": the elusive epoch in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian calendars / Seth Ward
  • Antichrist and his predecessors: the incorporation of Jewish traditions of evil into Christian end-times scenarios / Matthew Goff
  • The apocalypse according to the rabbis: divergent rabbinic views on the end of days / Richard A. Freund
  • The new-world pilgrimage of the church: millennial hope and disappointments in the Franciscan mission to New Spain / David E. Timmer
  • Mourning the end of time: apocalypses as texts of cultural loss / Dereck Daschke
  • A borrowed apocalypse: reading the book of revelation in new religious movements / Eugene V. Gallagher
  • Atomic bomb cinema: Judaism, the apocalyptic narrative tradition and Western culture at the dawn of the new millennium / Jerome F. Shapiro
  • The end of the world and The X-files: the dismemberment of Christian millennialism in *American mass-mediated entertainment / Brenda E. Brasher.