Cosmos, Chaos And The World To Come by Norman Cohn
The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith
A concise history of apocalyptic imagination, it traces how expectations of an ultimate end and a renewed world grew from ancient Near Eastern combat myths and Iranian dualism, merged with Israelite prophecy, and culminated in Jewish and early Christian visions. By exploring themes of cosmic order versus chaos, resurrection, judgment, and new creation, it shows how a linear, redemptive view of time displaced older cyclical cosmologies. Through readings of texts such as Daniel, Enoch, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Revelation, it explains how apocalyptic hope offered meaning in times of crisis and profoundly shaped the religious imagination of the West.
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- 1993
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