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Product Description: A vibrant and growing field of discussion in contemporary New Testament studies is the question of 'apocalyptic' thought in Paul. What is often lacking in this discussion, however, is a close comparison of Paul's would-be apocalyptic theology with the Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature of his time, and the worldview that literature expresses...read more

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9780567667281 | T&t Clark Ltd, June 16, 2016, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: A vibrant and growing field of discussion in contemporary New Testament studies is the question of 'apocalyptic' thought in Paul.

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Product Description: Apocalyptic Anxiety traces the sources of American culture’s obsession with predicting and preparing for the apocalypse. Author Anthony Aveni explores why Americans take millennial claims seriously, where and how end-of-the-world predictions emerge, how they develop within a broader historical framework, and what we can learn from doomsday predictions of the past...read more

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9781607324706 | Univ Pr of Colorado, May 2, 2016, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Apocalyptic Anxiety traces the sources of American culture’s obsession with predicting and preparing for the apocalypse.

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By Michael A. Ryan (editor)

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9789004243095 | Brill Academic Pub, February 25, 2016, cover price $258.00

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Product Description: 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 has long been the quintessential Pauline text on the parousia of Christ. Nowhere else does Paul reveal a more vivid picture of Christ’s coming. The apostle Paul employs a number of images to describe the parousia to the Thessalonian congregation who have become anxious, grief-stricken, and despairing in the midst of the loss of their loved ones...read more

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9781433130632 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, November 29, 2015, cover price $83.95 | About this edition: 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 has long been the quintessential Pauline text on the parousia of Christ.

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Product Description: In 1644, the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Europe fuelling an already febrile atmosphere of messianic and millenarian expectation...read more

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9781472435842 | Ashgate Pub Co, July 7, 2015, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: In 1644, the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Europe fuelling an already febrile atmosphere of messianic and millenarian expectation.

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Theorizing that aliens are trying to make contact with humanity and that there are descendants of an alien race living on Earth, the authors present their unique theory on human contact with an alien intelligence. Original.

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9780205718160 | 7 edition (Prentice Hall, December 27, 2010), cover price $237.40
9780205183333 | 7 pck har/ edition (Prentice Hall, December 27, 2010), cover price $244.73
9780205058297 | 7 pck har/ edition (Prentice Hall, December 20, 2010), cover price $237.40
9780205511389 | 6 edition (Allyn & Bacon, July 15, 2007), cover price $151.60
9780205419289 | 5th edition (Allyn & Bacon, June 1, 2004), cover price $139.60
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9780205670284, titled "Infants, Children, and Adolescents: Books a La Carte Edition" | 7 pck unbn edition (Prentice Hall, July 19, 2011), cover price $169.33
9780205010516 | 7 stg edition (Prentice Hall, January 5, 2011), cover price $53.00
9780425133088, titled "Starborn" | Berkley Pub Group, June 1, 1992, cover price $4.99 | also contains Starborn | About this edition: Theorizing that aliens are trying to make contact with humanity and that there are descendants of an alien race living on Earth, the authors present their unique theory on human contact with an alien intelligence.

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Product Description: What's new about the apocalypse? Revelation does not allow us to look back after the end and enumerate pivotal turning points. It happens in an immediate encounter with the transformatively new.John Milton's and Andrew Marvell's lyrics attempt to render the experience of such an apocalyptic change in the present...read more

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9780823263479 | Fordham Univ Pr, January 22, 2015, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: What's new about the apocalypse?

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By David Addyman (editor)

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9789004278264 | Brill Academic Pub, October 31, 2014, cover price $180.00

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By Aris Mousoutzanis (editor)

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9780415712583 | Routledge, July 25, 2014, cover price $145.00

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9780314085238, titled "Contemporary Moral Problems" | West Group, June 1, 1997, cover price $63.95 | also contains Contemporary Moral Problems

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Product Description: At this point of the scholarly debate on the nature of Second Temple pseudepigraphy, one may ask why another look at the problem is needed. This book is not the definitive answer to that problem but it proposes different paths - or better still, a two-fold path: on one hand to understand Second Temple pseudepigraphy as a mystical experience and on the other, for lack of a suitable ancient example, to compare it to modern-day automatic writing...read more

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9783110333541 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, November 30, 2013, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: At this point of the scholarly debate on the nature of Second Temple pseudepigraphy, one may ask why another look at the problem is needed.

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Product Description: Persepolis and Jerusalem reconsiders Iranian influence upon Jewish apocalyptic, and offers grounds upon which such study may proceed. After describing the history of scholarship on the question of Iranian influence and on Jewish apocalyptic, Jason M...read more

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9780567205513 | T&t Clark Ltd, February 23, 2012, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Persepolis and Jerusalem reconsiders Iranian influence upon Jewish apocalyptic, and offers grounds upon which such study may proceed.

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9780567173836 | Reprint edition (T&t Clark Ltd, November 7, 2013), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Persepolis and Jerusalem reconsiders Iranian influence upon Jewish apocalyptic, and offers grounds upon which such study may proceed.

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Product Description: This monograph explores the significance accorded to John's island of Patmos (Rev. 1:9) within the wider reception history of the Apocalypse. In contrast to the relatively scant attention paid to John's island in modern commentaries, this reception-historical survey reveals both the greater prominence accorded to Patmos by earlier interpreters, and the richer diversity of readings the text has provoked...read more

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9780199674206 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 10, 2013, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: This monograph explores the significance accorded to John's island of Patmos (Rev.

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Product Description: "A New Reading of the Animal Apocalypse of 1 Enoch" offers a full theological analysis of this second-century BCE allegory and uses this as the basis for a new commentary on the text, presented in a fresh translation.

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9789004245303 | Brill Academic Pub, March 1, 2013, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: "A New Reading of the Animal Apocalypse of 1 Enoch" offers a full theological analysis of this second-century BCE allegory and uses this as the basis for a new commentary on the text, presented in a fresh translation.

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Product Description: CONTENTS Introduction PART ONE: The Social-Political Context of Apocalyptic and Wisdom Texts 1. Ben Sira and the Sociology of the Second Temple 2. The Politics of Cultural Production 3. The Social Settings of the Components of 1 Enoch PART TWO: Reconsiderations of Texts in Historical Contexts 4...read more

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9781610972857 | Wipf & Stock Pub, October 24, 2012, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: CONTENTS Introduction PART ONE: The Social-Political Context of Apocalyptic and Wisdom Texts 1.

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Product Description: While John Winthrop might have famously uttered the phrase “city upon a hill” on the way to Massachusetts, the strands of millennialism and exceptionalism that remain so central to U.S. political discourse are now dominated by eschatological visions that have emerged from the particular historical experiences of the U...read more

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9780814293034 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, September 30, 2012), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: While John Winthrop might have famously uttered the phrase “city upon a hill” on the way to Massachusetts, the strands of millennialism and exceptionalism that remain so central to U.
9780814212011 | Ohio State Univ Pr, September 30, 2012, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: While John Winthrop might have famously uttered the phrase “city upon a hill” on the way to Massachusetts, the strands of millennialism and exceptionalism that remain so central to U.

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9789004219809 | Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 2012, cover price $169.00 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9781589836426 | Society of Biblical Literature, May 14, 2012, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: 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.

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