Apocalypses
Download Apocalypses full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Apocalypses ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads.
Author |
: Lucy Corin |
Publisher |
: McSweeney's |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2016-08-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781944211103 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1944211101 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses by : Lucy Corin
Lucy Corin's "eye popping, enlightening read" (Publishers Weekly), now in paperback. At the heart of Lucy Corin’s dazzling collection are one hundred apocalypses: visions of loss and destruction, vexation and crisis, revelation and revolution, sometimes only a few lines long. In these haunting and wickedly funny stories, an apocalypse might come in the form of the end of a relationship or the end of the world, but they all expose the tricky landscape of our longing for a clean slate. In three longer stories, contemporary American life is playfully, if disturbingly, distorted: the rite of passage for adolescent girls involves choosing the madman who will accompany them into adulthood; California burns to the ground while, on the east coast, life carries on; and a soldier returns home broke from war to encounter a witch who extends a dangerous offer. At once mournful and explosively energetic, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses is "deeply rooted in the politics and upheaval of our times" (Lambda Literary).
Author |
: Eugen Weber |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674003950 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674003958 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Apocalypses by : Eugen Weber
Apocalyptic visions and prophecies from Zarathustra to yesterday form the panorama in Eugen Weber's profound and elegant book. Beginning with the ancients of the West and the Orient, Weber finds that an absolute belief in the end of time, when good would do final battle with evil, was omnipresent.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: Canongate Books |
Total Pages |
: 60 |
Release |
: 1999-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857861016 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857861018 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revelation by :
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Author |
: Todd R. Hanneken |
Publisher |
: Society of Biblical Lit |
Total Pages |
: 347 |
Release |
: 2012-06-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781589836433 |
ISBN-13 |
: 158983643X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Subversion of the Apocalypses in the Book of Jubilees by : Todd R. Hanneken
In spite of some scholars’ inclination to include the book of Jubilees as another witness to “Enochic Judaism,” the relationship of Jubilees to the apocalyptic writings and events surrounding the Maccabean revolt has never been adequately clarified. This book builds on scholarship on genre to establish a clear pattern among the ways Jubilees resembles and differs from other apocalypses. Jubilees matches the apocalypses of its day in overall structure and literary morphology. Jubilees also uses the literary genre to raise the issues typical of the apocalypses—including revelation, angels and demons, judgment, and eschatology—but rejects what the apocalypses typically say about those issues, subverting reader expectations with a corrected view. In addition to the main argument concerning Jubilees, this volume’s survey of what is fundamentally apocalyptic about apocalyptic literature advances the understanding of early Jewish apocalyptic literature and, in turn, of later apocalypses and comparable perspectives, including those of Paul and the Qumran sectarians.
Author |
: Martha Himmelfarb |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 1993-08-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195359657 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195359658 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses by : Martha Himmelfarb
This is a study of the ancient Jewish and Christian apocalypses involving ascent into heaven, which have received little scholarly attention in comparison to apocalypses concerned primarily with the end of the world. Recent developments like the publication of the Aramaic Enoch fragments from Qumran and interest in questions of genre in the study of the apocalypses make this a particularly appropriate time to undertake this study. Martha Himmelfarb places the apocalypses in relation to both their biblical antecedents and their context in the Greco-Roman world. Her analysis emphasizes the emergence of the understanding of heaven as temple in the Book of the Watchers, the earliest of these apocalypses, and the way in which this understanding affects the depiction of the culmination of ascent, the hero's achievement of a place among the angels, in the ascent apocalypses generally. It also considers the place of secrets of nature and primeval history in these works. Finally, it offers an interpretation of the pseudepigraphy of the apocalypses and their function.
Author |
: Wilhelm Schneemelcher |
Publisher |
: Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages |
: 788 |
Release |
: 2003-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0664227228 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780664227227 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis New Testament Apocrypha: Writings relating to the Apostles; Apocalypses and related subjects by : Wilhelm Schneemelcher
Translation of: Neutestamentliche Apokryphen.
Author |
: Maria Manuel Lisboa |
Publisher |
: Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781906924508 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1906924503 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The End of the World by : Maria Manuel Lisboa
Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all human communities and finds expression in every aspect of cultural production - from pre-historic cave paintings to high-tech computer games. This volume examines historical and imaginary scenarios of apocalypse, the depiction of its likely triggers, and imagined landscapes in the aftermath of global destruction. Its discussion moves effortlessly from classic novels including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, to blockbuster films such as Blade Runner, Armageddon and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Lisboa also takes into account religious doctrine, scientific research and the visual arts to create a penetrating, multi-disciplinary study that provides profound insight into one of Western culture's most fascinating and enduring preoccupations.
Author |
: Timothy Ford Allen |
Publisher |
: iUniverse |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2013-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781475982657 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1475982658 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Apocalypse's Orphan by : Timothy Ford Allen
Some two hundred miles above Earth, Commander Orlando Iron Wolf is ready to complete his final orbit of the day aboard the International Space Station. As he peers out the window and counts down the minutes until his shift ends, he suddenly sees a blinking light in the distance. Wolf has no idea that what he is seeing is a rogue comet headed straight on a collision course with Earth. Now it is up to him to try to stop it before the planet is destroyed. As NASA frantically moves the Hubble, Wolf is assigned to travel on the Atlantis shuttle to observe the comet. As the world prepares to save as many people as possible, Wolf ignores his foreboding feelings and heads toward the comet, where his mission inevitably fails and he is placed in suspended animation. Now cryogenically frozen, Wolf is watched through the centuries by an onboard computer. When Wolf is finally released from the comet's grip, thousands of years have passed, the earth has been fractured into two nearly identical planets, and humankind has reverted to living amid medieval times. In this exciting science fiction tale, a man must use his newly discovered superpowers and the female voice of a computer to stem the oppressive tide of those who want nothing more than to see him and the future annihilated forever.
Author |
: Natasha O'Hear |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199689019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199689016 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Picturing the Apocalypse by : Natasha O'Hear
This book fills these gaps in a striking and original way by means of ten concise thematic chapters which explain the origins of these concepts from the book of Revelation in an accessible way. These explanations are augmented and developed via a carefully selected sample of the ways in which the concepts have been treated by artists through the centuries. The 120 visual examples are drawn from a wide range of time periods and media including the ninth-century Trier Apocalypse, thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman Apocalypse Manuscripts such as the Lambeth and Trinity Apocalypses, the fourteenth-century Angers Apocalypse Tapestry, fifteenth-century Apocalypse altarpieces by Van Eyck and Memling, Dürer and Cranach's sixteenth-century Apocalypse woodcuts, and more recently a range of works by William Blake, J.M.W. Turner, Max Beckmann, as well as film posters and film stills, cartoons, and children's book illustrations.
Author |
: Benjamin E. Reynolds |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198784241 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198784244 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis John Among the Apocalypses by : Benjamin E. Reynolds
John among the Apocalypses explains John's distinctive narrative of Jesus's life by comparing it to Jewish apocalypses and highlighting the central place of revelation in the Gospel. By engaging with modern genre theory, Reynolds reveals surprising similarities of form, content, and function between John's Gospel and Jewish apocalypses.