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The Apocalypse Issue | Fall 2012

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From the Editors ~ Matti Bunzl and Rachel Havrelock


From the President ~ Jeffrey Shandler


From the Executive Director ~ Rona Sheramy


Apocalypse Then ~ John J. Collins


The Pursuit of the Millennium at Qumran ~ Albert I. Baumgarten


Apocalypse in the History of Judaism: Continuities and Discontinuities ~ Hindy Najman


Gustave Doré, The Saintly Throng in the Shape of a Rose Apocalyptic Science ~ Seth Sanders


Unveiling the Veil: Apocalyptic, Secrecy, and the Jewish Mystical Imaginaire ~ Elliot R. Wolfson


Messianism: Apocalyptics between Magic and Religion ~ Marla Segol


Imagining the End in Thirteenth-Century Acre ~ Uri Shachar


Photograph of Philip K. Dick with Cat by Anne Dick. Copyright © by Anne Dick, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC. Apocalypse Deferred: Gershom Scholem and Philip K. Dick ~ Bruce Rosenstock


The evacuation of Yamit in the North Sinai, as part of the peace agreement with Egypt. In the photo, IDF soldiers evacuating a settler, April 22, 1982. Photograph by Tel Or Beni. Courtesy of the Israel Government Press Office. Apocalyptic Anxiety and Zionism ~ Michael Feige


Apocalypse Then and Now ~ Lorenzo DiTommaso


Artwork Featured in The Apocalypse Issue ~ Doug Fogelson


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