The Washington Post, December 24th, 2000
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 Greek for "stripping" or "unveiling" is apokalypsis, hence the "apocalypse") of John. For centuries, it was believed that the apocalypse was a largely Christian concept. But the Dead Sea Scrolls disclosed (among many other things) that such interpretations of earth's inevitable end were more deeply rooted in Judaism than we'd thought. The Jewish Book of t...
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