Acknowledgments

Editors' Introduction

Contributors

Understanding Peaceful and Violent Contemporary Millennial Movements

Catherine Wessinger

The Dawn of the New Cycle: Millennial Hopes and Pedagogical Realities

W. Michael Ashcraft

Where the End Times Begin: Jerusalem and the Millennial Vision 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

Antichrist and His Predecessors: The Incorporation of Jewish Traditions of Evil into Christian End-Time Scenarios

Matthew Goff

The 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

Atomio Bomb Cinema: Judaism, the Apocalyptic Narrative Tradition, and Western Culture at the Dawn of the New Millennium

Jerome F. Shapiro

The End of the World and The X-Files: The Dismemberment of Christian Millennialism in American Mass-Mediated Entertainment

Brenda E. Brasher