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The Book of Daniel is one of the earliest instances of apocalyptic literature within the Abrahamic traditions.. Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed in post-Exilic Jewish culture and was popular among millennialist early Christians.
"Apocalypse" has come to be used popularly as a synonym for catastrophe, but the Greek word apokálypsis, from which it is derived, means a revelation. [13] It has been defined by John J Collins as "a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both ...
Orson Scott Card's post-apocalyptic anthology The Folk of the Fringe (1989) deals with American Mormons after a nuclear war. Jeanne DuPrau's children's novel The City of Ember (2003) was the first of four books in a post-apocalyptic series for young adults. A film adaptation, City of Ember (2008), stars Bill Murray and Saoirse Ronan.
An episode of Masters of Horror directed by Tobe Hooper – it has a triple apocalyptic theme as it features a man-made virus causing a zombie outbreak after World War III. Novel 2005 War The Goodness Gene: Sonia Levitin: Children's book Novel 2005 War Metro 2033: Dmitry Glukhovsky: Set in the metro tunnels of post-apocalyptic Moscow.
Paul Meyer and Léopold Delisle, in their book L'Apocalypse en français au XIII e siècle (Paris MS fr. 403), 2 vols., Paris, 1901, [1] were the first scholars to try to list, describe and categorize the Apocalypse manuscripts. M. R. James also wrote about illustrated Apocalypse manuscripts in his book The Apocalypse in Art, London, 1931. [2]
The Apocalypse of Thomas (Latin: Revelatio Thomae) is a work from the New Testament apocrypha, apparently composed originally in Greek.It concerns the end of the world, and appears to be influenced by the Apocalypse of John (better known later as the Book of Revelation), although it is written in a less mystical and cosmic manner.
Novels in the genre of apocalyptic fiction, a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy, dystopia or horror in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. Subcategories
As the title suggests, the Apocalypse of Peter is classed as part of the genre of apocalyptic literature. The Greek word apokalypsis literally means "revelation", and apocalypses typically feature a revelation of otherworldly secrets from a divine being to a human—in the case of this work, Jesus and Peter. [ 54 ]