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Abbo of Fleury
Abelard, Peter
Against Heresies (Irenaeus)
Against the Jews (Joachim of Fiore)
Against the Jews and Their Lies (Luther)
Akenson, Donald Harman
Akiva, Rabbi
Alexander the Great
Alexander Jannaeus
alphanumeric code (666)
American politics: apocalyptic activism as part of; fundamentalism role in modern; God-less apocalypse role in
American Prospect
Amos
The Animal Apocalypse
Antichrist: Apocalyptic tradition on; beast description of; candidates for the; challenge of interpreting Revelation’s; Jerusalem Temple rebuilt by; Joachim’s vision of; medieval Christianity tradition on; Revelation’s representation of; Satan as; 666 alphanumeric code for; slain by Jesus Christ; technological manifestations of; Tribulation and the. See also beast
Antiochus IV (Antiochus Epiphanes)
Anti-Semitism
apocalypse: definitions of; Revelation known as. See also the God-less apocalypse; Revelation
The Apocalypse of Adam
Apocalypse of Paul
The Apocalypse of St. John (Der)
The Apocalypse of the Virgin Mary
The Apocalypse of Weeks
apocalyptic science fiction films
apocalyptic texts: The Animal Apocalypse; book of Daniel as; The Book of Thunder; earlier influences on; end-times prophecies included in; first book of Enoch; Jewish tradition of; Little Apocalypse of the Gospels as; Pseudepigrapha (“false writings”) included as; The Shepherd of Hermas
apocalyptic tradition: alienation experience reflected by; Americanization of the; on Anti-God idea; book of Enoch’s influence on; culture war contribution to; as the history of a delusion; imagery during medieval era; medieval development of; modern manifestations of; origins of; persecution element of. See also end-times prophecies; God-less apocalypse
Approaching Hoofbeats: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Graham)
Arabella (1630 ship)
Arjomand, Said Amir
Artemesium (Greek temple)
The Astronomical Book
Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria
atomic bomb (code name Trinity) [1945]
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
Aum Shinrikyo cult
author. See Revelation author
“The Babylonian Captivity”
Babylonian Exile
Bacon, Roger
Bakker, Jim
Balaam
Balfour Declaration (1917)
