Cosmos, chaos, and the world to come : the ancient roots of apocalyptic faith
Norman Cohn (Author)
"In this book, the author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium investigates the origins of apocalyptic faith - the belief in a perfect future, when the forces of good are victorious over the forces of evil. Norman Cohn takes us back two thousand years to the world views of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, the innovations of Iranian and Jewish prophets and sages, and the earliest Christian imaginings of heaven on earth, and he illuminates a major turning point in the history of human consciousness. For this second edition, the final chapter on Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians has been wholly rewritten and extended."--Jacket
eBook, English, 2001
Second edition View all formats and editions
Yale University Press, New Haven, 2001
Comparative studies
1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations
9780300177190, 9780300090888, 0300177194, 0300090889
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The ancient Near East and beyond. Egyptians ; Mesopotamians ; Vedic Indians ; Zorastrians ; From combat myth to apocalyptic faith
Syro-Palestinian crucible. Ugarit ; Yahweh and the Jerusalem monarchy ; Exile and after ; Jewish apocalpses (I) ; Jewish apocalpses (II) ; The Jesus sect ; The book of Revelation ; Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians