Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith by Norman Cohn

Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith

Norman Cohn

256 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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All over the world people look forward to a perfect future, when the forces of good will be finally victorious over the forces of evil. Once this was a radically new way of imagining the destiny of the world and of mankind. How did it originate, a...

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