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diff --git a/reading-log.md b/reading-log.md index dfafbd2..4fa3ad2 100644 --- a/reading-log.md +++ b/reading-log.md @@ -6,6 +6,22 @@ author: Joe Carstairs ## 2026-04-30 +### @{apocalyptic-complex} + +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 |