The apocalypse
Subtitle: a brief history
By: Martha Himmelfarb
Series: Blackwell brief histories of religion series; Blackwell brief histories of religion
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781405113465; 9781405113472
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Revelation in the age of the Torah; title: The book of the watchers and ascent to heaven; title: The book of Daniel and the kingdom of the holy ones; title: The heavenly Messiah; title: The heavenly temple, the fate of souls after death, and cosmology; title: Tours of paradise and hell and the Hekhalot texts; title: Eschatology in the Byzantine Empire; title: Apocalyptic movements in the modern era.