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