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Authors: Jonathan Kirsch
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Prisca
prophecy/prophecies: apocalyptic tradition of; book of Daniel; concerning coming messiah; false prophets and; Second Coming; traditional end (538 B.C.E.) of.
See also
end-times prophecies
prophets: authentic and inauthentic; David Koresh as self-styled; The Didache on; false; link between classical and apocalyptic; Montanists as self-styled
Protestant fundamentalism.
See
Christian fundamentalism
Protestant Reformation: continued in the new world; Revelation’s influence on the
“Protoapocalypses”
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
(anti-Semitic forgery)
Protocols
(Ford)
Pseudepigrapha (“false writings”)
Puritan colonists
The Pursuit of the Millennium
(Cohn)
Qumran sect (Essenes)
Raimarus, Nicholas
Rapture
The Rapture
(film)
Rauschenbusch, Walter
Reagan, Ronald
A Rebirth of Images
(Farrer)
red dragon/pregnant woman symbolism
Revelation 10:9
Revelation: allusions to Hebrew Bible passages in; attitude toward women evident in; comparing the Gospels to; debate over canonization of; Google search hits on; Jewish roots evidenced in; linkage between Holocaust and; literature references to; medieval apocalyptic tradition and influence of; medieval church mosaic representation of; mysterious content and appeal of; night visions of; Reformation debate over; religious propaganda fueled by; as revenge fantasy; spiritual approach to reading; two witnesses vision in; villains and characters described in.
See also
End-times prophecies; New Testament
Revelation author: black-or-white morality/opposition of; characteristics evidenced about; claim of divine authorship by; debate over; discernments about the; earlier writings/ideas influencing; injustice feelings expressed by; John the Baptist as candidate for; John the Evangelist as; presbyter John as candidate for; theological origins evidenced by.
See also
John the Evangelist
Revelation symbolism: the beast; Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Great Whore of Babylon; opposition; woman (pregnant)/red dragon.
See also
Number symbolism
Richard the Lion-Hearted (King of England)
Robertson, Pat
Roberts, Oral
Robison, James
Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
Roman Catholic Church: apocalyptic revolution within; “the Babylonian Captivity” of; The Church Militant and Triumphant as; inquisitor actions against women of; medieval development of; Revelation used by Martin Luther against.
See also
Christianity
Roman Empire: decline and fall of the; Emperor worship in; end-times prophecy on rebuilding of; evidence in Revelation of author’s hatred for; Great Whore of Babylon symbol of; Maccabean Revolt against; New Testament authors’ treatment of; symbol of the spirit (or
genius
) of; various Jewish responses to
Rosenberg, David
Rosen, George
Rowley, H. H.
Russell, Charles Taze
Sabbath Age
Sacchi, Paolo
Satan: as Antichrist; battle in heaven between Michael and; bound by Christ; final battle between God and; Hebrew Bible characterization of; Revelation on nature of
Savonarola, Girolamo
Schoepflin, Rennie B.
Schweitzer, Albert
science fiction films
Scivias
(Hildegard of Bingen)
Scofield, Cyrus R.
Scofield Reference Bible
(1902)
Second Coming: dating the; Great Disappointment (nineteenth century) and; Jewish state established prior to; premillennialists and postmillennialists on the; Rapture of; signs of the; Tribulation prior to the.
See also
end-times prophecies; millennium
The Second Coming
(Yeats)
Second Epistle to the Thessalonians
Second Great Awakening (nineteenth century)
Second World War
Seleucid dynasty
September 11, 2001
Septuagint (Greek Bible)
Seven symbolism
Seventh-day Adventists
The Seventh Seal
(film)
Sexual conduct
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
The Shepherd of Hermas
Sibylline Oracles
Sibyl of Tivoli
Signs of the Times
(Millerite periodical)
Simon Bar Kochba
Simony practice
666 alphanumeric code
Smith, Joseph
Social Gospel
Son of Man
Sontag, Susan
Soviet Union
Spirituals (Zealots)
Stein, Stephen J.
Steward, Lyman
Stewart, Milton
Stifel, Michael
Suetonius
Sulpicius
Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds
(Akenson)
Suskind, Ron
Sweet, Leonard
symbolism.
See
number symbolism; Revelation symbolism
Szittya, Penn
Tertullian
A Theology for the Social Gospel
(Rauschenbusch)
Thérèse of Lisieux
Thompson, Damian
Thompson, Hunter S.
Tiburtine Sibyl
Tolkin, Michael
Torah
Torrey, Reverend Reuben A.
Tribulation
Trinity (Atomic bomb, 1945)
Tripoli Prophecy (Cedars of Lebanon Prophecy)
The Twelve Caesars
(Suetonius)
two witnesses vision
Tyconius
Tyler’s Rebellion (1381)
Ubertino da Casale
Vermeer, Jan
Voltaire
Waco Branch Davidians cult
Watchers (angels)
Watts, James
wealth/possessions
Weber, Timothy P.
Weinberger, Caspar
Wesley, John
West, Samuel
Whisenant, Edgar
Whiston, William
White, Ellen
The White Goddess
(Graves)
White Jacket
(Melville)
White, James
Who Wrote the Bible?
(Friedman)
Wieseltier, Leon
Wigglesworth, Michael
Wilkerson, David
William the Conqueror
Wills, Garry
Winthrop, John
woman (pregnant)/red dragon symbolism
women: Beguines community of; condemning attitude toward; inquisitor actions against; John’s attitude toward sexual conduct and; Revelation readings by
World War I
World War II
year 1000 belief
Yeats, William Butler
Yeshua bar Yosef.
See also
Jesus (historical)
Zealots (Franciscan order Spirituals)
Zealots (Jewish)
Zelazny, Roger
Zevi, Shabbatzi
Zionism: Christian; Jewish
Zoroastrian writings
Zwingli, Ulrich
As always, my first thought is for my wife and lifelong best friend, Ann Benjamin Kirsch, and my children, Jennifer Rachel Kirsch and Adam Benjamin Kirsch, whose love, encouragement and support were and are indispensable to the writing of this book and to every aspect of my life and work.
Along with my family, this book is dedicated to my brother and sister-in-law, Paul and Caroline Kirsch, my sister and brother-in-law, Marya and Ron Shiflett, and my aunt, Lillian Conrad Heller, cherished relations and, more than that, gracious and generous human beings.
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Jonathan Kirsch is the author of ten books, including the national bestseller
The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible, King David: The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel, Moses: A Life,
and his most recent work,
God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism.
Kirsch is also a book columnist for the
Los Angeles Times,
a broadcaster for NPR affiliates KCRW-FM and KPCC-FM in Southern California, and Adjunct Professor on the faculty of New York University, and an attorney specializing in publishing law and intellectual property in Los Angeles. Visit the author online at www.jonthankirsch.com
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A HISTORY OF THE END OF THE WORLD:
How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization.
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