| Date
|
Seminar
Topic |
Text |
Speakers
|
10/7
M |
Synthesis
#1: Technology and Spectacle & the Apocalyptic Crisis
|
1
Enoch (The Book of the Watchers and the Apocalypse
of Weeks) and The Matrix |
|
10/14
M |
Text:
Daniel |
Daniel
1-12 |
|
10/16
W |
Text:
Toni Morrison's Sula |
Sula
|
|
10/21
M |
Synthesis #2: Apocalyptic Plots: The Ends & Beginnings of History |
Daniel
and Sula |
|
10/23
W |
Text:
The Dead Sea Sect |
The
Community Rule, the War Scroll, the New Jerusalem |
|
10/28
M |
Text:
Zionist Utopia & Modern Jewish Messianism |
Selected
web sites, Ravitzky and Dein articles, Juergensmeyer, Daniels
|
|
10/30
W |
Text:
The Early Christian Movement |
1-2
Thessalonians; 1-2 Corinthians, Mark, Acts, Didache 16, Shepherd of Hermas, Sibylline Oracles |
|
11/4
M |
Text:
Israel in Protestant Christian End-time Scripts |
Moorhead
and Barkun articles, Juergensmeyer |
|
11/6
W |
Synthesis
#3: Apocalyptic Social Groups & Movements, Judaism |
Dead
Sea Scrolls, modern Jewish messianism readings |
|
11/6
W |
Synthesis
#4: Apocalyptic Social Groups & Movements, Christianity |
New
Testament texts, readings on Israel in modern Protestant end-time
scripts; Juergensmeyer |
|
11/11
M |
Text:
Revelation |
Revelation
|
|
11/13
W |
Text:
The Branch Davidian Disaster at Waco |
Primary
material in Daniels, Gallagher article, Juergensmeyer |
|
11/18
M |
Synthesis
#5: The Cosmic War, Christian Forms |
Revelation
and Waco readings |
|
11/20
W |
Text:
The Qur'an |
Qur'an
surahs 1; 57; 75 |
|
12/2
M |
Text:
Apocalyptic Scripts in Radical Islam |
Al-Qiyama.org
exposition of surah 75:20-21; Position papers from Boston
College's Center for Millennial Studies |
|
12/4
W |
Synthesis
#6: The Cosmic War, Muslim Forms |
Qur'an
and radical Islam readings |
|
