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"In this 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. For this second edition, the final chapter on Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians has been wholly rewritten and extended."--Jacket.
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Cosmogony, Comparative studies, Eschatology, Creation, Oorsprong, Études comparatives, Vedismus, Escatología, Création, Apokalyptik, Eschatologie, Cosmología, Estudios comparativos, Creación, Kosmologie, Cosmogonie, 11.09 systematic religious studies: other, Cosmology, Civilization, ancient, Christianity, originEdition | Availability |
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Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith
2001, Yale University Press
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Cosmos, chaos, and the world to come the ancient roots of apocalyptic faith
2001, Yale Nota Bene
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Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come
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Cosmos, chaos, and the world to come: the ancient roots of apocalyptic faith
2001, Yale University Press
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Cosmos, chaos et le monde qui vient
September 19, 2000, Allia
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El Cosmos, El Caos y El Mundo Venidero
October 1997, Grijalbo, Crítica
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Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith
October 25, 1995, Yale University Press
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Cosmos, chaos, and the world to come: the ancient roots of apocalyptic faith
1993, Yale University Press
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Previous ed: New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1993
Includes bibliographical references and index
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