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Yale University Press, Date: 2001. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2001. Yale University Press ISBN 0300090889 9780300090888 [US]
Yale University Press, Date: 2001 12mo (19.5 cm), [12], 282 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. All over the world people look forward to a perfect future, when the forces of good will be finally victorious over the forces of evil. Once this was a radically new way of imagining the destiny of the world and of mankind. How did it originate, and what kind of world-view preceded it? In this engrossing book, the author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium takes us on a journey of exploration, through the world-views of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, through the innovations of Iranian and Jewish prophets and sages, to the earliest Christian imaginings of heaven on earth. Until around 1500 B.C., it was generally believed that once the world had been set in order by the gods, it was in essence immutable. However, it was always a troubled world. By means of flood and drought, famine and plague, defeat in war, and death itself, demonic forces threatened and impaired it. Various combat myths told how a divine warrior kept the forces of chaos at bay and enabled the world to survive. Sometime between 1500 and 1200 B.C., the Iranian prophet Zoroaster broke from that static yet anxious world-view, reinterpreting the Iranian version of the combat myth. For Zoroaster, the world was moving, through incessant conflict, toward a conflictless state -- cosmos without chaos. The time would come when, in a prodigious battle, the supreme god would utterly defeat the forces ...
Paperback / softback. New. The view that good will overcome evil and lead to a perfect world is held by many religions and races. This work investigates the origins of this belief through the world views of Egypt, Mesopotamia and India, through Iranian and Jewish prophets, to early Christian beliefs. ISBN 0300090889 9780300090888 [GB]
ISBN10: 0300090889, ISBN13: 9780300090888, [publisher: Yale University Press] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. [Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]
ISBN10: 0300090889, ISBN13: 9780300090888, [publisher: Yale University Press] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. The view that good will overcome evil and lead to a perfect world is held by many religions and races. This work investigates the origins of this belief through the world views of Egypt, Mesopotamia and India, through Iranian and Jewish prophets, to early Christian beliefs. [Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]
ISBN10: 0300090889, ISBN13: 9780300090888, [publisher: Yale University Press] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. [Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]
Yale University Press 10/10/2001 12: 00: 00 AM 2nd ed. Softcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
Yale University Press 10/10/2001 12: 00: 00 AM 2nd ed. Softcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
Yale University Press, Date: 2001-09-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2001. Yale University Press ISBN 0300090889 9780300090888 [US]
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