Apocalypse

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title: Apocalypse
text: Apocalypse is a literary genre originating in Judaism in the centuries following the Babylonian exile but persisting in Christianity and Islam. In it a supernatural being reveals cosmic mysteries or the future to a human intermediary. The means of mediation include dreams, visions and heavenly journeys, and they typically feature symbolic imagery drawn from the Jewish Bible, cosmological and (pessimistic) historical surveys, the division of time into periods, esoteric numerology, and claims of e
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description: Concept of a prophetic revelation, sometimes about eschatology
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse
date created: 2002-06-23T06:29:20Z
date modified: 2024-09-04T14:54:28Z
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