Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism: Volume One: The Origins of Apocalypticism in Judaism and Christianity

Hailed as the best scholarship in its field, this survey traces apocalypticism's role in Western history from its origins to the close of the third millennium.

Continuum congratulates Joan J. Collins on being the recipient of the 1999 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award

Praise for the Encyclopedia:
"...clear, rich, and provocative...it gathers available but widely scattered insights and interpretations into one convenient...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082641253X
• ISBN13: 9780826412539
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good source of information

A collection of essays by scholars of Apocalypticism. Good cites, interesting reading. Would have given it 5 stars, but the book contains no index, which would have been very useful to me.