Contriving the Rapture (via Sects and Violence in the Ancient World)

Yes, fantastic! Rossing’s book needs to be read by every ‘rapturist’ inhabiting the planet.

In the light of last month’s failed rapture attempt, I decided to read a book that I picked up some years ago that had been written in the wake of the millennial scare. Having grown up with nightmares of the rapture, I learned during my first college class on the book of Revelation that it was relatively modern meme, invented in the nineteenth century. Barbara Rossing’s The Rapture Exposed seemed a good way to refresh my memory without having to … Read More

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