This accessible and enlightening history provides insights into the fascinating genre of apocalyptic literature, showing how the apocalypse encompasses far more than popular views of the last judgment and violent end of the world might suggest.: An accessible and enlightening history of the "apocalypses"--Ancient Jewish and Christian works -- providing fresh insights into the fascinating genre of literature; Shows how the apocalypses were concerned not only with popular views of the last judgment and violent end of the world, but with reward and punishment after death, the heavenly t
