Limmud Michigan 2020

The word ‘apocalypse’ summons to mind some of the most terrifying religious ideas:  world-engulfing wars, supernatural creatures falling to earth, natural forces ripping the world asunder, the very end of the cosmos itself.  These notions have their origins in the most dramatic and colorful literature in all of Judaism.  This talk will be an introduction to the vast corpus of Jewish apocalyptic literature from the Biblical Book of Daniel, the Book of Enoch, the catastrophic Wars of Light and Dark in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and beyond.  No genre of literature has had such an enormous impact on our world and yet remains so poorly understood - come and hear about this most bewildering Jewish literature.