Robert E. Lerner
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Website : Robert Lerner at Northwestern University
Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Author of The Heresy of the Free Spirit and The Powers of Prophecy: the Cedar of Lebanon Vision from the Mongol Onslaught to the Dawn of the Enlightenment.
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Apocalyptic literature, literary genre that foretells supernaturally inspired cataclysmic events that will transpire at the end of the world. A product of the Judeo-Christian tradition, apocalyptic literature is characteristically pseudonymous; it takes narrative form, employs esoteric language,…
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