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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aCohn, Norman,$d1915-2007,$eauthor.
245 10 $aCosmos, chaos, and the world to come :$bthe ancient roots of apocalyptic faith /$cNorman Cohn.
264 1 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c1993.
300 $a271 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-265) and index.
505 0 $aPart 1. The ancient Near East and beyond : Egyptians ; Mesopotamians ; Vedic Indians ; Zoroastrians ; From combat to apocalyptic faith -- Part 2. Syro-Palestinian crucible : Ugarit ; Yahweh and the Jerusalem monarchy ; Exile and after ; Jewish apocalypses (I, II) ; The Jesus sect ; The book of Revelation ; Jews, Zoroastrians and Christians.
520 $a"In this engrossing book, the author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium investigates the origins of apocalyptic faith-the belief in a perfect future, when the forces of good are victorious over the forces of evil. Norman Cohn takes us back two thousand years to the world views of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, the innovations of Iranian and Jewish prophets and sages, and the earliest Christian imaginings of heaven on earth, and he illuminates a major turning point in the history of human consciousness."--Publisher's description.
520 $a"All over the world people look forward to a perfect future, when the forces of good will be finally victorious over the forces of evil. Once this was a radically new way of imagining the destiny of the world and mankind. How did it originate, and what kind of world-view preceded it? In this engrossing book, the author of classic work, The Pursuit of the Millennium, takes on a journey of exploration through the world-views of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and India, through the innovations of Iranian and Jewish prophets and sages, to the earliest Christian imaginings of heaven on earth. Until around 1500 BC, it was generally believed that once the world had been set in order by the gods, it was in essence immutable. However, it was always a troubled world. By means of flood and drought, famine and plague, defeat in war, and death itself, demonic forces threatened and impaired it. Various combat myths told how a divine warrior kept the forces of chaos at bay and enabled the world to survive. Sometime between 1500 and 1200 BC, the Iranian prophet Zoroaster broke from this static yet anxious world-view, reinterpreting the Iranian version of the combat myth. For Zoroaster, the world was moving, through incessant conflict, toward a conflictless state -- 'cosmos without chaos.' The time would come when, in a prodigious battle, the supreme god would utterly defeat the forces of chaos and their human allies and eliminate them forever, and so bring an absolutely good world into being. Cohn reveals how this vision of the future was taken over by certain Jewish groups, notably the Jesus sect, with incalculable consequence. Deeply informed, yet highly readable, this magisterial book illumines a major turning-point in the history of human consciousness. It will be mandatory reading for all who appreciated The Pursuit of the Millennium." -- Publisher's description
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650 0 $aCreation$vComparative studies.
650 0 $aCosmogony$vComparative studies.
650 0 $aEschatology$vComparative studies.
650 4 $aCreación$vEstudios comparativos.
650 4 $aCosmología$vEstudios comparativos.
650 4 $aEscatología$vEstudios comparativos.
650 6 $aCréation$vÉtudes comparatives.
650 6 $aCosmogonie$vÉtudes comparatives.
650 6 $aEschatologie$vÉtudes comparatives.
650 7 $aCosmogony.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00880584
650 7 $aCreation.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00882382
650 7 $aEschatology.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00915134
650 7 $aApokalyptik$2gnd
650 7 $aEschatologie$2gnd
650 7 $aKosmologie$2gnd
650 7 $aVedismus$2gnd
651 7 $aAlter Orient$2gnd
650 17 $aEschatologie.$2gtt
650 17 $aOorsprong.$2gtt
648 7 $aGeschichte 1500 v. Chr.-100$2swd
653 0 $aEschatology
655 4 $aComparative studies.
655 7 $aComparative studies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423767
710 2 $aMazal Holocaust Collection.$5TxSaTAM
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780300055986.pdf
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