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Messianism
*General Background* Becker, Joachim. Messianic Expectation in the Old Testament, trans. David E. Green. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980. Betz, Otto and Sarah A. Edwards, eds. "Messianic Expectations in the Context of First-Century Judaism." In Christology in Dialogue (ed. Robert F. Berkey and Sarah A. Edwards; Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1993) 31-43. Chester, Andrew. "Jewish Messianic Expectations and Mediatorial Figures and Pauline Christology." In Paulus und das antike Judentum (ed. Ulrich Heckel and Martin Hengel; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1991) 17-89. Collins, John J. "Jesus and the Messiahs of Israel." In Geschichte— Tradition— Reflexion: Festschrift für Martin Hengel zum 70. Geburtstag, vol. 3, Frühes Christentum (ed. Hermann Lichtenberger; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1996) 287-302. --------. The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature, ABRL. New York: Doubleday, 1995. Court, John M. The Book of Revelation and the Johannine Apocalyptic Tradition, JSNTSup 190. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. Day, John, ed. King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar, JSOTSup 270. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998. Review Ehrman, Bart D. Jesus, Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Ferch, Arthur J. The Son of Man in Daniel 7, Andrews Seminary Doctoral Dissertation Series 6. Berrien Springs, Michigan: Andrews University Press, 1979. Fishbane, Michael. "Midrash and Messianism: Some Theologies of Suffering and Salvation." In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998). Gager, John G. "Messiahs and their Followers." In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998). Glasson, T. Francis. "The Temporary Messianic Kingdom and the Kingdom of God." Journal of Theological Studies 41 (1990) 517-25. Horsley, Richard. "The Jesus Movement." In The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 1, The Origins of Apocalypticism in Judaism and Christianity (ed. John J. Collins; New York: Continuum, 1998) 303-344. --------. "Popular Messianic Movements Around the Time of Jesus." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 46 (1984) 471-95. Juel, Donald. Messianic Exegesis: Christological Interpretation of the Old Testament in Early Christianity. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987. Klausner, Joseph. The Messianic Idea in Israel, from Its Beginning to the Completion of the Mishnah, 3d Hebrew edition, trans. W. F. Stinespring. New York: Macmillan, 1955; Hebrew original. Laato, Antti. A Star is Rising: The Historical Development of hte Old Testament Royal Ideology and the Rise of the Jewish Messianic Expectations, University of South Florida International Studies in Formative Christianity and Judaism 5. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997. Landman, Leo, ed. Messianism in the Talmudic Era. New York: KTAV, 1979. Levey, Samson H. The Messiah: An Aramaic Interpretation; The Messianic Exegesis of the Targum. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1974. Mantel, Hugo. "The Causes of the Bar Kokhba Revolt." Jewish Quarterly Review 58 (1968) 224-42, 274-96. Meadors, Edward P. "The 'Messianic' Implications of the Q Material." Journal of Biblical Literature 118 (1999) 253-77. Neusner, Jacob, William Scott Green and Ernest S. Frerichs, eds. Judaisms and Their Messiahs at the Turn of the Christian Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Nitzan, Bilhah. "Eschatological Motives in Qumran Literature: The Messianic Concept." In Eschatology in the Bible and in Jewish and Christian Tradition (ed. Henning Graf Reventlow; JSOTSup 243; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997) 132-51. Oegema, Gerbern S. The Anointed and His People: Messianic Expectations from the Maccabeees to Bar Kochba, JSPSup 27. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998. Schafer, Peter. "Introduction: Diversity and Interaction: Messiahs in Early Judaism." In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998). Scholem,Gershom Gerhard. The Messianic Idea in Judaism and Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality. New York: Schocken, 1971. Seltzer, Robert M. Jewish People, Jewish Thought: The Jewish Experience in History. New York: Macmillan, 1980. Sharot, Stephen. Messianism, Mysticism, and Magic: A Sociological Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. Slater, Thomas B. "One Like a Son of Man in First-Century CE Judaism." New Testament Studies 41 (1995) 183-98. Stanley, D. M. "The Theme of the Servant of Yahweh in Primitive Christian Soteriology, and Its Transposition by St. Paul." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 16 (1954) 385-425. VanderKam, James. "Messianism and Apocalypticism." In The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 1, The Origins of Apocalypticism in Judaism and Christianity (New York: Continuum, 1998) 193-228. Wise, Michael O. The First Messiah: Investigating the Savior before Christ. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999. Yadin, Yigael. Bar-Kokhba: The Rediscovery of the Legendary Hero of the Second Jewish Revolt Against Rome. New York: Random House, 1971. Zimmerli, Walther and Joachim Jeremias, rev. ed. The Servant of God. London: SCM, 1965. *Jewish Messianism* Simon bar Kosiba (fl.* 132-135 CE)* Bar Kochba, The Son of the Star folder of primary texts Klausner, Joseph. The Messianic Idea in Israel, from Its Beginning to the Completion of the Mishnah, 3d Hebrew edition, trans. W. F. Stinespring. New York: Macmillan, 1955; Hebrew original. Landman, Leo, ed. Messianism in the Talmudic Era. New York: KTAV, 1979. Mantel, Hugo. "The Causes of the Bar Kokhba Revolt." Jewish Quarterly Review 58 (1968) 224-42, 274-96. Oegema, Gerbern S. The Anointed and His People: Messianic Expectations from the Maccabeees to Bar Kochba, JSOTSup 27. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. Yadin, Yigael. Bar-Kokhba: The Rediscovery of the Legendary Hero of the Second Jewish Revolt Against Rome. New York: Random House, 1971. Sabbatai Sevi (1626-1676 CE) Davies, W. D. "From Schweitzer to Scholem: Reflections on Sabbatai Svi." Journal of Biblical Literature 95 (1976) 529-58. Festinger, Leon, Henry W. Riecken and Stanley Schachter. When Prophecy Fails. New York: Harper and Row, 1965; original 1956. Merrill, Eugene H. "Sabbatai Zvi and Jewish Messianism." Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 16 (1973) 159-65. Scholem, Gershom Gerhard. Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676, trans. R. J. Zwi Werblowsky. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973. Messianic Judaism Today Agus, Jacob B. "The Messianic Ideal and the Apocalyptic Vision." Judaism 32 (1983) 205-214. Lenowitz, Harris. "Shukr Kuhayl II Reads the Bible." In Sacred Text, Secular Times: The Hebrew Bible in the Modern World (ed. Leonard Jay Greenspoon and Bryan F. LeBeau; Studies in Jewish Civilization 10; Omaha, Nebraska: Creighton University Press, 2000). Review Rausch, David A. Messianic Judaism: Its History, Theology and Polity. New York: Edwin Mellen, 1982. Ravitzky, Aviezer. "The Messianism of Success in Contemporary Judaism." In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 204-229. --------. Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism, trans. Michael Swirsky and Jonathan Chipman, Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996; Hebrew original, Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1993. Stone, John R. "Messianic Judaism: A Redefinition of the Boundary Between Christian and Jew." In Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI, 1991) 237-52. See also the general Course Bibliography. *Christian Messianism* *The Mahdi in Islam*

"Marking with the Sign of the Beast": The Significance of Tattooing and Body-Piercing in Apocalyptic Groups
Barkun, Michael. "Militias, Christian Identity, and the Radical Right." The Christian Century 112 (1995) 738-41. Blalock, H. M., Jr. "Status Inconsistency, Social Mobility, Status Integration, and Structural Effects." American Sociological Review 32 (1967) 790-801. Combes, I. A. H. The Metaphor of Slavery in the Writings of the Early Church: From the New Testament to the Beginning of the Fifth Century, JSNTSup 156. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998. Elm, Susanna. "'Pierced by Bronze Needles': Anti-Montanist Charges of Ritual Stigmatization in Their Fourth-Century Context." Journal of Early Christian Studies 4 (1996) 409-39. Fisher, Louis. "Statutory Exemptions for Religious Freedom." Journal of Church and State 44 (2002) 221-41. Goffman, E. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1962. Gustafson, W. Mark. "Inscripta in Fronte: Penal Tattooing in Late Antiquity." Classical Antiquity 16 (1 1997) 79-105. Harrill, James Albert. The Manumission of Slaves in Early Christianity, HUT 32. T¨bingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1995. Heinrichs, Kevin. "Tattoos No Longer Taboo?" Christianity Today 43 (1999) 17. Hurowitz, Avigdor. "'His Master Shall Pierce his Ear with an Awl' (Exodus 21:6) - Marking Slaves in the Bible in Light of Akkadian Sources." American Academy for Jewish Research (1992) 47-77. Jones, C. P. "Stigma: Tattooing and Branding in Graeco-Roman Antiquity." Journal of Roman Studies 77 (1987) 139-55. Kraybill, J. Nelson. "Apocalypse Now." Christianity Today 43 (1999) 30-40. Luebbers, Amy. "The Remnant Faithful: A Case Study of Contemporary Apocalyptic Catholicism." Sociology of Religion 62 (2001) 221-41. Macmullen, Ramsey. "Judicial Savagery in the Roman Empire." Chiron 16 (1986) 147-66. Marrs, Texe. Mystery Mark of the New Age: Satan's Design for World Domination. Westchester, Connecticut: Crossway, 1989. McMinn, Lisa. "Y2K, the Apocalypse, and Evangelical Christianity: The Role of Eschatological Belief in Church Responses." Sociology of Religion 62 (2001) 205-220. Paulsell, Stephanie. "Body Language." The Christian Century 119 (2002) 18-24. Relfe, Mary Steward. When Your Money Fails: The "666 System" is Here. Montgomery, Alabama: League of Prayer, 1981. Schmucki, O. The Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi: A Critical Investigation in the Light of Thirteenth-Century Sources, trans. C. F. Connors, Franciscan Institute Publications: History Series 6. New York: St. Bonaventure University, 1991. Stanley, D. M. "The Theme of the Servant of Yahweh in Primitive Christian Soteriology, and Its Transposition by St. Paul." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 16 (1954) 385-425. Vogt, Joseph. Ancient Slavery and the Ideal of Man, trans. Thomas Wiedemann. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1975. Sullivan, Nikki. Tattooed Baodies: Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics, and Pleasure. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2001.

Montanism and the New Prophecy: An Apocalyptic Movement, c.150-400 CE
Required Resources in "Montanists and the New Prophecy" Folder, on reserve Primary Texts Apollonius, Eusebius, and Tertullian Secondary articles and notes Coxe, A. Cleveland. Gero, Stephen. "Montanus and Montanism according to a Medieval Syriac Source." Journal of Theological Studies 28 (1977) 520-24. Groh, Dennis E. "Utterance and Exegesis: Biblical Interpretation in the Montanist Crisis." In The Living Text: Essays in Honor of Ernest W. Saunders (ed. Dennis E. Groh and Robert Jewett; Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1985) 73-95. Klawiter, Frederick C. "The Role of Martyrdom and Persecution in Developing the Priestly Authority of Women in Early Christianity: A Case Study of Montanism." Church History 49 (1980) 251-61. Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. "The Patriarchal Household of God and the Ekklesia of Women." In In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (New York: Crossroad, 1983) 285-342. Trevett, Christine. "Eschatological Timetabling and the Montanist Prophet Maximilla." Studia Patristica 31 (Louvain: Peeters, 1997) 218-24. Williams, D. H. "The Origins of the Montanist Movement: A Sociological Analysis." Religion 19 (1989) 331-51. Other Secondary Sources Elm, Susanna. "'Pierced by Bronze Needles': Anti-Montanist Charges of Ritual Stigmatization in Their Fourth-Century Context." Journal of Early Christian Studies 4 (4 1996) 409-439. Frend, W. H. C. "Montanism: A Movement of Prophecy and Regional Identity in the Early Church." In Sects and New Religious Movements (ed. A. Dyson and E. Barker; BJRL 70.3; Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988) 25-34. Heine, Ronald E., trans. The Montanist Oracles and Testimonia, NAPSPMS 14. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1989. Hill, Charles E. "The Marriage of Montanism and Millennialism." Studia Patristica 26 (Louvain: Peeters, 1993) 140-46. Klawiter, Frederick C. The New Prophecy in Early Christianity: The Origin, Nature and Development of Montanism, A.D. 165-220. Ph. D. Dissertation; Chicago, 1975. Kolenkow, Anitra Bingham. "Asceticism, Apocalypticism and Alternatives—Hypotheses for Spectra of Occurrences: Studies and Summaries of Three Times in Early Church History." SBLSP 23 (1984) 241-4. Kreidler, Mary Jane. "Montanism and Monasticism: Charism and Authority in the Early Church." Studia Patristica 18 (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian, 1989) 229-34. McGinn, Sheila Elizabeth. "The 'Montanist' Oracles and Prophetic Theology." Studia Patristica 31 (Louvain: Peeters, 1997) 128-35. Poirier, John C. "Montanist Pepuza-Jerusalem and the Dwelling Place of Wisdom." Journal of Early Christian Studies 7 (4 1999) 491-507. Tabbernee, William. "Early Montanism and Voluntary Martyrdom." Colloquium 17 (1985) 33-44. -------. Montanist Inscriptions and Testimonia: Epigraphic Sources Illustrating the History of Montanism, NAPSPMS 16. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1997. Trevett, Christine. Montanism: Gender, Authority and the New Prophecy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Apocalyptic Movements around the Turn of the First Millennium
Basic Bibliography McGinn, Bernard, trans. Apocalyptic Spirituality: Treatises and Letters of Lactantius, Adso of Montier-en-Der, Joachim of Fiore, the Franciscan Spirituals, Savonarola, Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist, 1979. --------. Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Joachim of Fiore Bloomfield, Morton W. "Recent Scholarship on Joachim of Fiore and His Influence." In Prophecy and Millenarianism, 21-52. Lee, Harold. "The Anti-Lombard Figures of Joachim of Fiore: A Reinterpretation." In Prophecy and Millenarianism, 127-42. McGinn, Bernard. "Apocalypticism and Church Reform: 1100–1500." Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 2. --------. "Symbolism in the Thought of Joachim of Fiore." In Prophecy and Millenarianism, 143-64. Reeves, Marjorie E. The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism. Oxford: Clarendon, 1969. See also the general Course Bibliography. The Franciscan Spirituals Lambert, M. D. Franciscan Poverty: The Doctrine of the Absolute Poverty of Christ and the Apostles in the Franciscan Order, 1210–1323. London: S. P. C. K., 1961. Leff, Gordon. "The Franciscan Concept of Man." In Prophecy and Millenarianism, 217-37. West, Delno C., Jr. "The Education of Fra Salimbene of Parma: The Joachite Influence." In Prophecy and Millenarianism, 191-215. See also the general Course Bibliography.

Savonarola and Renaissance Apocalypticism
McGinn, Bernard, trans. "Savonarola." In Apocalyptic Spirituality: Treatises and Letters of Lactantius, Adso of Montier-en-Der, Joachim of Fiore, the Franciscan Spirituals, Savonarola (Classics of Western Spirituality; New York: Paulist, 1979) 183-275 and related notes. Weinstein, Donald. "Millenarianism in a Civic Setting: The Savonarola Movement in Florence." In Millennial Dreams in Action: Studies in Revolutionary Religious Movements (ed. Sylvia L. Thrupp; New York: Schocken, 1970) 187-203. --------. Savonarola and Florence: Prophecy and Patriotism in the Renaissance. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1970.

Protestant Interpretation of the Book of Revelation during the Reformation
Use the general Course Bibliography.

Franciscan Apocalypticism and the Conquest of the "New World"
Milhou, Alain. "Apocalypticism in Central and South American Colonialism." Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3. Prosperi, Adriano. "New Heaven and New Earth: Prophecy and Propaganda at the Time of the Discovery and Conquest of the Americas." In Prophetic Rome in the High Renaissance Period: Essays (ed. Marjorie Reeves; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992) 279-303. See also the bibliography listed for the Franciscan Spirituals above.

Apocalyptic Thought and the Origins of the United States
General Background & Resources Cherry, Conrad. God's New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American Destiny. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1971. Jeffrey, David Lyle. GPeople of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1996. Lowance, Mason I., Jr. The Language of Canaan: Metaphor and Symbol in New England from the Puritans to the Transcendentalists. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1980. Mabee, Charles. Reimagining America: A Theological Critique of the American Mythos and Biblical Hermeneutics, StABH 1. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1985. University of Virginia. "Red, White, Blue & Brimstone: New World Literature and the American Millennium." University of Virginia Library Exhibit, November 15, 1999-April 29, 2000, McGregor Room, Alderman Library. Online, http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/brimstone/, 23 May 2003. Puritans in New England, 17th and 18th centuries Bush, Sargent, Jr. "The American Puritans and Millennialism." In Fearful Hope: Approaching the New Millennium (ed. Christopher Kleinhenz and Fannie J. LeMoine; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999) 214-17. Davidson, James West. The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth-Century New England, Yale Historical Publications, Miscellany 112. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1977. Holstun, James. A Rational Millennium: Puritan Utopias of Seventeenth-Century England and America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Smolinski, Reiner. "Apocalypticism in Colonial North America." Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3. Leaders of the American Revolution Hatch, Nathan O. The Sacred Cause of Liberty: Republican Thought and the Millennium in Revolutionary New England. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1977. Skinner, Andrew C. "The Influence of the Hebrew Bible on the Founders of the American Republic." In Sacred Text, Secular Times: The Hebrew Bible in the Modern World (ed. Leonard Jay Greenspoon and Bryan F. LeBeau; Studies in Jewish Civilization 10; Omaha, Nebraska: Creighton University Press, 2000). Review

Apocalypse and the Holocaust
Batstone, David B. "The Transformation of the Messianic Idea in Judaism and Christianity in Light of the Holocaust: Reflections on the Writings of Elie Wiesel." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 23 (1986) 587-600. Danow, David K. "Epiphany and Apocalypse in Holocaust Writing: Aharon Appelfeld." Religion and Literature 29 (1997) 61-74. Friedlander, Albert H. "Humanity and Apocalypse: Confronting the Holocaust." In Religion and the Humanizing of Man (Waterloo, Ontario: Council on the Study of Religion, 1972) 87-90. Greenberg, Gershon. "Orthodox Theological Responses to Kristallnacht: Chayyim Ozer Grodzensky (Achiezer) and Elchonon Wassermann." Holocaust and Genocide Studies 3 (1988) 431-41. Linafelt, Tod, ed. Strange Fire: Reading the Bible after the Holocaust. New York: New York University Press, 2000. Review Roskies, David G. Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1984. Rubenstein, Richard L. "Apocalyptic Rationality and the Shoah." In Contemporary Jewish Religious Responses to the Shoah (ed. Steven L. Jacobs; Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1993) 157-72, 207-210.

Exegesis of a Contemporary Apocalyptic Work
Charlesworth, James H., ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1, Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments. New York: Doubleday, 1983. García Martínez, Florentino. The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English, 2d ed., trans. Wilfred G. E. Watson. Leiden/New York: E. J. Brill, 1996; Spanish original. Use the final two sections of the Course Bibliography and the titles listed at the next topic for ideas about contemporary apocalyptic literature and cinema.

Apocalyptic Thought and African-American Literature
Primary Works Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain. New York: Dial, 1963. Chesnutt, Charles. The Marrow of Tradition. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969. Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. New York: Vintage, 1972. Jones, LeRoi (Imamu Amiri Baraka). The System of Dante's Hell. Morrison, Toni. Sula. New York: Penguin, 1983. Naylor, Gloria. The Women of Brewster Place. New York: Penguin, 1983. Wright, Richard. Native Son. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993. Secondary Literature Montgomery, Maxine Lavon. The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996.

Millennial Groups in the United States and Apocalyptic
Basic Bibliography Barkun, Michael. "End-Time Paranoia: Conspiracy Thinking at the Millennium's Close." In Fearful Hope: Approaching the New Millennium (ed. Christopher Kleinhenz and Fannie J. LeMoine; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999) 170-84. Kaplan, Jeffrey. Radical Religion in America: Millenarian Movements from the Far Right to the Children of Noah. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1997. Robbins, Thomas and Susan J. Palmer, eds. Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements. New York: Routledge, 1997. Wessinger, Catherine Lowman. How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate. New York: Chatham House, 2000. --------. Millennialism, Persecution and Violence: Historical Cases, Religion and Politics. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1999. To select a specific group, use the list and bibliographies posted for general Course Bibliography.

Hal Lindsey and the End of the World
Lindsey Literature Linsey, Hal. Facing Millennial Midnight. 1999. --------. Planet Earth: The Final Chapter. Western Front Publications, 1998. --------. Planet Earth Two Thousand A.D.: Will Mankind Survive? Western Front, 1996. --------. The Final Battle. Western Front, 1995. --------. There's a New World Coming: An Indepth Analysis of the Book of Revelation. Harvest House Publications, 1984. The Late Great Planet Earth. Lindsey, Hal and Cliff Ford. International Intelligence Briefing. Online: http://www.hallindseyoracle.com/. Secondary Literature Festinger, Leon, Henry W. Riecken and Stanley Schachter. When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World. New York: Harper and Row, 1965; original 1956.

Christian Millennialist or Jewish Messianic Views of Jerusalem and the State of Israel
Christian Millennialists Beegle, Dewey M. Prophecy and Prediction. Ann Arbor: Pryor Pettengill, 1978. Lindsey, Hal. Israel and the Last Days. Harvest House, 1991. Ryrie, Charles C. What You Should Know About the Rapture. Chicago: Moody, 1981. Messianic Jews in Israel Berenbaum, Michael. "In a World Without a Redeemer, Redeem: Messianism in Contemporary Israel." In Contemporary Jewish Religious Responses to the Shoah (ed. Steven L. Jacobs; Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1993) 23-32, 187-8. Rausch, David A. Messianic Judaism: Its History, Theology and Polity. New York: Edwin Mellen, 1982. Ravitzky, Aviezer. "The Messianism of Success in Contemporary Judaism." In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 204-229. --------. Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism, trans. Michael Swirsky and Jonathan Chipman, Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996; Hebrew original, Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1993. See the sources listed at the Course Bibliography for Contemporary Islamic Apocalypticism and Jerusalem & Israel in Moslem Eschatologies for more ideas.

9/11 and Apocalypticism in Radical Islam
*Primary Texts* Anonymous. "The Last Night (document left behind by 9/11 Hijackers)." Appendix in "Suicide Attacks or Martyrdom Operations in Contemporary Jihad Literature." Nova Religio 6 (2002) forthcoming. (Made available at the Course ERes: Research Materials folder with the permission of the author) *Secondary Texts* See the sources listed at the Course Bibliography for Contemporary Islamic Apocalypticism and Jerusalem & Israel in Moslem Eschatologies for more ideas. Cook, David B. "America, the Second 'AD: Prophecies about the Downfall of the United States." Center for Millennial Studies: Scholarship, Boston University (Winter 2001). Online, http://www.mille.org/scholarship/papers/ADAM.html, 9 October 2002. --------. "The Beginnings of Islam as an Apocalyptic Movement." Center for Millennial Studies: Publications, Boston University (Winter 2001). Online, http://www.mille.org/publications/winter2001/cook.html, 9 October 2002. --------. "Islam and Apocalypse." Center for Millennial Studies: Articles and Abstracts, Boston University (2001). Online, http://www.mille.org/scholarship/papers/cookabs.html, 9 October 2002. --------. "Jerusalem, the Year 2000 and Modern Muslim Apocalyptic Expectations." Paper presented at The Jerusalem Center for Israel Studies, Jerusalem, 21 June 1999. (Made available at the Course ERes:Research Materials folder with the permission of the author) --------. "Muslim Apocalyptic Writers and Christian Evangelicals: The Internet Connection." Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Center for Millennial Studies Conference, Boston University, Boston, MA, 5 November 2001. (Made available at the Course ERes:Research Materials folder with the permission of the author) Juergensmeyer, Mark. "Islam's 'Neglected Duty.'" In Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society 13; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000-2001) 60-83. Landes, Richard E. "Apocalyptic Islam and Bin Laden." Center for Millennial Studies: People, Boston University (Winter 2001). Online, http://www.mille.org/people/rlpages/Bin_Laden.html, 9 October 2002. Oliver, Anne-Marie and Paul Steinberg. "The Politics of Apocalypse in the Underground Media of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)." Center for Millennial Studies: People, Boston University (1997). Online, http://www.mille.org/people/steinbergoliver.html, 9 October 2002. Wessinger, Catherine. "Bin Laden and Revolutionary Millennialism." Center for Millennial Studies: CMS Home, Boston University (Winter 2001). Online, http://www.mille.org/cmshome/wessladen.html, 9 October 2002; reprinted Op-Ed piece from the New Orleans Times-Picayune, 10 October 2001.

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