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2011
Abstract The beliefs of the movement that lies behind the scrolls were influenced by the eschatological ideas of the early Enochic writings and by the Book of Daniel, and although the movement does not seem to have produced many apocalypses, eschatology and messianism formed a significant part of its thought-world.
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Abstract The beliefs of the movement that lies behind the scrolls were influenced by the eschatological ideas of the early Enochic writings and by the Book of Daniel, and although the movement does not seem to have produced many apocalypses, eschatology and messianism formed a significant part of its thought-world.
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Apocalypticism in Contemporary Christianity
2014Apocalyptic culture in contemporary American encompasses a wide range of ideologies and preoccupations, from UFOs and comets to messiahs, Marian cults, and Mayan calendars. The story of Jesus Christ’s return to earth, which is a part of Christianity, has been central to American apocalypticism.
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2020
Long viewed as incompatible and mutually exclusive traditions, scholars have now come to see many fundamental similarities between those texts typically described as either sapiential or apocalyptic. Thanks to a greater overall understanding of the Second Temple period and its literature, the discovery and publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the ...
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Long viewed as incompatible and mutually exclusive traditions, scholars have now come to see many fundamental similarities between those texts typically described as either sapiential or apocalyptic. Thanks to a greater overall understanding of the Second Temple period and its literature, the discovery and publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the ...
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Apocalypticism and Popular Culture
2014This chapter examines apocalypticism in popular culture, based on a new understanding of apocalypticism as a historical and global worldview. The first sections describe apocalypticism, define popular culture, and discuss the role of fiction as the primary conduit through which the worldview is expressed today.
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Hope gone awry—An odd bed fellowship of Islamic and Christian neo-apocalypticism
Dialog, 2022Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
exaly