A postmodern revelation : signs of astrology and the Apocalypse /
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| Author / Creator: | Chevalier, Jacques M., 1949- |
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| Imprint: | Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1997. |
| Description: | ix, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2744522 |
| Summary: | Chevalier (sociology and anthropology, Carlton U.) examines the Biblical Book of Revelation in the context of ancient astro-mythology, and finds in it the confrontation between and downfall of two modes of storytelling in western history: astrology and eschatology, and with them divination and proph |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-398) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0802041728 9780802041722 0802079768 9780802079763 |
