Conference held Oct. 10-11, 1999. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
"Teach us to number our days" : the elusive epoch in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian calendars / Seth Ward. Dawn of the new cycle : millennial hopes and pedagogical realities / W. Michael Ashcroft -- Where the end times begin : Jerusalem and the millennial vison of evangelical Christians / Yaakov Ariel -- Apocalyptic schemes and dreams : how an ancient Jewish vision of the future came to dominate the modern world / James D. Tabor -- "Teach us to number our days" : the elusive epoch in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian calendars / Seth Ward. A borrowed apocalypse : reading the Book of Revelation in new religious movements / Eugene V. Gallagher. Apocalypse according to the Rabbis : divergent rabbinic views on the end of days / Richard A. Freund -- The New World pilgrimage of the Church : millennial hopes and disappointments in the Franciscan mission to New Spain / David E. Timmer -- Mourning the end of time : apocalypses as texts of cultural loss / Dereck Daschke -- A borrowed apocalypse : reading the Book of Revelation in new religious movements / Eugene V. Gallagher. The end of the world and The X-Files : the dismemberment of Christian millennialism in American mass-mediated entertainment / Brenda E. Brasher. The end of the world and The X-Files : the dismemberment of Christian millennialism in American mass-mediated entertainment / Brenda E. Brasher.
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