Kirsch, Jonathan
Contents: Something rich and strange -- Spooky knowledge and last things -- The history of a delusion -- The Apocalyptic invasion -- "Your own days, few and evil" -- To begin the world over again -- The godless Apocalypse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 228 KIRRossing, Barbara R.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Westview Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 236.9 ROSPagels, Elaine H.
Summary: A world-renowned scholar of religion and bestselling author of "The Gnostic Gospels, Beyond Belief," and" Reading Judas" explores the strangest and most controversial book in the Bible: the Book of Revelation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 228 PAGPagels, Elaine H.
Summary: Author Elaine Pagels returns the Book of Revelation to its historical origin, written as its author John of Patmos took aim at the Roman Empire after what is now known as 'The Jewish War' in 66 CE. Militant Jews in Jerusalem waged an all-out war against Rome's occupation of Judea and their defeat resulted in the desecration of Jerusalem and its Great Temple. Pagels offers the interpretation...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012