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The Apocalyptic Literature: Interpreting Biblical Texts Series is unavailable, but you can change that!

Biblical texts create worlds of meaning and invite readers to enter them. When readers enter such textual worlds, which are strange and complex, they are confronted with theological claims. With this in mind, the purpose of the IBT series is to help serious readers in their experience of reading and interpreting by providing guides for their journeys into textual worlds. The focus of the series...

clarifies the nature of the apocalyptic imagination in biblical texts. Apocalyptic thinking arises cross-culturally in groups of various backgrounds as a radical, but highly coherent, re-visioning of the world. In each case, it expresses itself in notions and visual images drawn from a group’s traditional “symbol storehouse.” A study of the roots of the Native American Ghost Dance tradition by Trudy Carter Thomas provides an excellent example of these ethnographic conclusions. The Ghost Dance movement