MILLENNIUM APOCALYPSE PROPHECY AND THE END-TIME

A short anthology of the principal ancient texts about the millennium and the end time.

This book contains extracts from the principal ancient texts about the millennium and the end time, and other prophecies and apocalyptic from antiquity and later. It includes the whole of Chapter 20 of the Book of Revelation, which is the text on which our concept of a millennium is founded. As well as that, it gives extracts from texts such as the prophecies attributed to Hermes Trismegistus (the thrice-great), the Gnostic codices of Nag Hammadi, the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, and many other texts which are otherwise hard to find today. Those texts serve to show the climate of apocalyptic and prophetic writing in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern world around the time of Christ, and within which the writer of the Book of Revelation lived. There are also some later texts. The book is useful for anyone interested in prophecy and the concept of the millennium. Dr. Brian Jeffery, the compiler, is a medievalist who took a First from Oxford and has taught at UC Berkeley, St. Andrews and elsewhere.

The book contains extracts from the following:

• The Egyptian Book of the Dead
• The prophets Isaiah, Amos, and Obadiah
• Middle Iranian apocalypse
• Late Egyptian Hellenistic texts
• The Sibyls
• The Book of Daniel
• The Ethiopic Book of Enoch
• The Dead Sea Scrolls
• The Gospels according to St. Matthew and St. Mark
• The Book of Revelation, chapter 20
• The Epistles of St. Paul and St. John
• The prophecies attributed to Hermes Trismegistus
• The Nag Hammadi Gnostic codices
• Lactantius
• The Tiburtine Sibyl
• St. Augustine
• Hildegard of Bingen
• Joachim of Fiore
• Christopher Columbus
• Nostradamus
• E.M. Forster, Yeats, D.H. Lawrence