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 ## 2026-04-30
 
+### @{apocalyptic-complex}
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+The essays largely cover the reception of ancient apocalyptic literature in a
+variety of contexts not obviously relevant to my dissertation: medieval
+Christendom, medieval Judaism, the German Enlightenment, post-communist Ukraine,
+Philip Pullman's novels, contemporary Jihadism.
+
+From the introduction, I learned that Obama had been identified as the
+Antichrist during the 2008 Presidential election campaign by a Republican party
+TV advert, Tim LeHaye and Hal Lindsey among others.
+
+I also found this argument interesting: despite the existence of many other
+ancient apocalypses, the Apocalypse of St John is ground zero for the genre now,
+because, due to its place in the Christian canon, it has had far more influence
+than any other apocalypse, ancient or modern.
+
 ### @{cry-of-the-wild}
 
 There were three epigraphs, one a 2016 report from the World Economic Forum