Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Part 1: The origins of apocalypticism in the ancient world -- The roots of apocalypticism in Near Eastern myth / Richard J. Clifford, S.J. -- Persian apocalypticism / Anders Hultgård -- From prophecy to apocalypticism: the expectation of the end / John J. Collins -- Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea scrolls / Florentino Garcia Martinez -- Messianism and apocalypticism / James C. VanderKam -- The eschatology of Jesus / Dale C. Allison, Jr. -- Paul and apocalyptic eschatology / M. C. de Boer -- The book of Revelation -- Part 2: Apocalyptic traditions from late antiquity to ca 1800 C.E. -- Apocalypticism in early Christian theology / Brian E. Daley, S.J. -- Byzantine apocalypses / David Olster -- Apocalypticism and church reform, 1100-1500 / Bernard McGinn -- Radical apocalyptic movements in the late Middle Ages / Gian Luca Potestà -- Images of hope and despair: Western Apocalypticism ca. 1500-1800 / Robin Barnes -- Jewish apocalypticism, 670-1670 / Moshe Idel -- Islamic apocalypticism in the Classic Period / Saïd Amir Arjomand -- Part 3: Apocalypticism in the Modern Age -- Apocalypticism in Central and South American colonialism / Alain Milhou -- alypticism in Colonial North America / Reiner Smolinski -- Apocalypticism in mainstream Protestantism, 1800 to the present / James H. Moorhead -- Apocalypticism outside the mainstream in the United States / Stephen J. Stein -- The growth of fundamentalist apocalyptic in the United States / Paul Boyer -- Apocalyptic movements in Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Robert M. Levine -- The Messianism of success in contemporary Judaism / Aviezer Ravitzky -- The resurgence of apocalyptic in modern Islam / Abbas Amanat -- Apocalypticism in modern Western Europe / Sandra L. Zimdars-Swartz and Paul F. Zimdars-Swartz -- Apocalypticism in Eastern Europe / J. Eugene Clay