Studying the Apocalypse:

Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Prophecy, Prophetic Interpretation, Eschatology, Apocalypticisim, Millennialism, Messianism, and Utopianism

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  1. THE TEXTS

  2. TEXT ANALYSIS AND COMMENTARY

  3. FIELDS, THEMES, MOTIFS, AND REFERENCE

  4. HISTORY

  5. IN OTHER RELIGIONS

  6. OTHER AREAS AND APPROACHES: CULTURE, ART, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIOLOGY, AND SCIENCE

3 Fields, Themes, Motifs, and Reference

Millennialism

Landes, Richard. Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 499 pp.

4 History

Periods

Medieval Period

Heiduk, Matthias, Klaus Herbers, and Hans-Christian Lehner, eds. Prognostication in the Medieval World: A Handbook. De Gruyter Reference. De Gruyter, 2021. 1100 pp.

5 In Other Religions

Cargo Cults

Worsley, Peter. The Trumpet Shall Sound: A Study of “Cargo” Cults in Melanesia. New York: Schocken Books, 1968. lxix, 300 pp.

Islam

Arjomand, Saïd Amir. Revolutions of the End of Time: Apocalypse, Revolution and Reaction in the Persianate World. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2023. 239 pp.

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Brandes, Wolfram, and Felicitas Schmieder, eds. Endzeiten: Eschatologie in den Monotheistischen Weltreligionen. Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends 16. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008. 451 pp.

Graeco-Roman

Star, Christopher. Apocalypse and Golden Age: The End of the World in Greek and Roman Thought. John Hopkins University Press, 2021. 306 pp.

Maya

Restall, Matthew, and Amara Solari. The Maya Apocalypse and Its Western Roots. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 168 pp.

Shinto

Miura, Takashi. Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 2019. 235 pp.

Various

Eschatology in Christianity and Other Religions. Studia Missionalia 32. Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1983. 403 pp.

Landes, Richard. Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 499 pp.