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TheoRhēma, 2017 There is an accepted opinion that, in difficult times, the apocalyptic literature has been positively used for encouragement. Equally true is that the history of Christianity attests to distorted uses of these compositions with regard to the ...
Daniel Olariu
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El acapulcalipsis en Cacapulco: humor grotesco y apocalipsis en Cristóbal Nonato de Carlos Fuentes
Caravelle, 2015 This paper analyzes the humorous rewriting of the apocalyptic discourse in Cristóbal Nonato (1987) by Carlos Fuentes. The revolutionnary utopia of the traditional apocalyptic discourse is questionned through the novel’s radical scepticism.
Brigitte Adriaensen
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Study and review of the Viewpoint of Zoroastrian Apocalyptic Texts against Iranian Anti-Caliphate Movements in the 2nd and 3rd century A.H [PDF]
Comparative Theology, 2019 Early Islamic centuries (1st to 3rd A.H) are significant in every scholarly study of different periods in Iranian history due to their intense transformation and profound developments within the Iranian society and also the encounter of Zoroastrian and ...
Esmaeil Sangari, Mohsen Yaqubi
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Patmos: Neither here nor there. Socio-cultural context for Occurrence of Revelation to John [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2017 Paper presents political and cultural conditions suitably for emerging of apocalyptic literature and offers a description of social setup of Roman Empire, Judaic society division and emerging of early Christianity.
Tomašević Milan
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Itinéraires, 2022 The aim of this article is to highlight the proto-ecofeminist undertones of Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel The Last Man. The novel depicts the annihilation of humankind due to a mysterious plague spreading at the end of the 21st century.
Garance Abdat
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All the Apocalypse a stage: The ritual function of apocalyptic literature
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 It has been made clear for quite some time that if the Bible has become a classic of Western culture because of its normativity, then the responsibility of the biblical scholar cannot be restricted to giving readers clear access to the original ...
Hanre Janse van Rensburg
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An Interview with Professor David Cook on Islamic Studies
Hitit İlahiyat Dergisi, 2022 David Cook is a Professor of religion in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University, specializing in Islam. He completed his undergraduate degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1994. He later received his M.A. degree in 1998 and his
Muhammed Cihat Oruç
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Originile apocalipticismului biblic: un studiu intertextual între apocalipsele lui Ioel și Daniel
TheoRhēma, 2018 While literary connections between passages from the book of Daniel and literary units from Genesis, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah have been elaborated in scholarly research, the intertextual relationship between Daniel and Joel has been largely, if not
Daniel Olariu
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Reviewing history in apocalyptic literature as ideological strategy
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2004 Reviews of history are ideological constructions. This article investigates historical reviews in the apocalyptic literature of Daniel and Ethiopic Enoch.
P.M. Venter
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The revelations of Revelation: The book that fits, even when it does not
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has again confirmed our obsession with, and misuse of, the Book of Revelation. Of course, this is definitely not the first time that Revelation’s themes and imagery have been pulled out and used to try and
Hanré Janse van Rensburg
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