End-Timers: Three Thousand Years of Waiting for Judgment Day

This fascinating history surveys apocalyptic religion through time, setting it within a political and social context.

End-Timers: Three Thousand Years of Waiting for Judgment Day examines the high and low points of millennial expectation across the centuries. It shows how and why such beliefs first developed in antiquity, and it explores how end-timers influenced events as varied as the persecutions of Hellenistic ruler Antiochus Epiphanes and Roman Emperor Nero, the Crusades, the settlement...