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The Stars Will Fall from Heaven: Cosmic Catastrophe in the New Testament and Its World is unavailable, but you can change that!

The aim of this book is to establish and explore New Testament belief in the end of the world through an investigation of texts which—on the face of it—contain ‘end of the world’ language. It engages with recent discussion on how Jewish and early Christian ‘end of the world’ was meant to be understood, and interacts especially with N.T. Wright’s proposals. The first part of the book is given over...

latter depicting the reversion of creation to chaos and the emergence of a new world. None of the texts in this category can legitimately be interpreted in socio-political terms. The texts themselves or their wider contexts make clear that the cessation of the existing created order is in view. Surprisingly, only a few passages envisage a non-destructive transformation of the created world: 1 En. 45.4–5; Jub. 1.29; 4.26. In
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