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Ancient Texts:

Bible (Copies available in the reference section of Honnold and Denison libraries, call number: BS191.5.A1 1991 .N49; and, on-line at: http://ccel.wheaton.edu or http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=RSV&passage=all)

1 Enoch (handout)

Psalms of Solomon (handout)

4 Ezra (handout)

Selections from the Dead Sea Scrolls (handout); for further information on the Dead Sea Scrolls, visit: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/

Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 20.97-98; 168-172 (handout)

Augustine, City of God (reserve and on-line at: 
     http://ccel.wheaton.edu/fathers2/NPNF1-02/)
Patricia Bernstein, "Terror in A.D. 1000?" Smithsonian (handout)
Eugene Borowitz, Reform Judaism Today, 85-90 (handout)
Joachim of Fiore, in Apocalyptic Spirituality (photocopy on reserve)
Katherine Keller, Apocalypse Now and Then (reserve)
Martin E. Marty, The Glory and the Power (reserve; photocopy)
Martin E. Marty, Pilgrims in Their Own Land (reserve; photocopy)
Paul Mendes-Flohr, The Jew in the Modern World, 183-185 (reserve)
John Milton, Paradise Lost (reserve and on-line at:
     http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/note/index.html)
Stephen O'Leary, "Apocalypticism in American Popular Culture," The 
     Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, 3.392-423
Stephen O'Leary, Arguing the Apocalypse (reserve; photocopy)
Gershom Scholem, The Messianic Idea in Judaism (reserve)
Alan Segal, Paul the Convert (reserve; photocopy)
Alan Segal, Rebecca's Children (reserve; photocopy)
William Shaffir, "Jewish Messianism Lubavitch-Style," Jewish Journal 
      of Sociology 35 (1993) 115-128 (photocopy on reserve)