(Greek. ‘Revelation’). Revelations of the end of time and the last judgement. Apocalyptic literature deals with such subjects as *heaven, the future of this world, the activities of *angels and the *soul’s future existence. Most...

Apocalypse, as the name of a literary genre, is derived from the Apocalypse of John, or Book of Revelation, in the New Testament. The word itself means "revelation," but it is reserved for revelations of a particular kind: mysterious...

Apocalypse (Greek: Ἀποκάλυψις -translit. apoca'lipsis, meaning literally: the lifting of the veil), is a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the majority of humankind. Today the term is often...

THE END OF DAYS Fundamentalism and the Struggle For the Temple Mount By Gershom Gorenberg Free Press. 288 pp. $25 For Christians--but not Jews--the Bible ends with the destruction and recreation of the universe narrated in the Revelation (the...

If you're trying to sort out the tangled themes of a Whitney Biennial, consider which older or more eminent artists arc included in the exhibition-they usually offer helpful clues, and this year's installment is no exception. I came to the Biennial hoping to gain...

Iraq: Democratic leaders are making it increasingly clear they'll let nothing prevent the U.S. from losing the war against al-Qaida and other terrorists in Iraq -- not even victory. For them, defeat in Iraq cannot come too soon. They are that convinced a failed war...

Helen Newman Memo to all plagiarists, fabricators, jailhouse-memoirists and other literary charlatans: This is a story about a writer. Helen Newman, 29, lives at her mother's place in Brooklyn. She teaches English at a cram school for Korean kids, sometimes she also assists an...