Selected papers from the Millennium Conference held in St Catherine's College, Oxford, 10 to 13 April 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Millennium and utopia : images of a fuller presence / Paul S. Fiddes -- Temporality and politics in Jewish apocalyptic literature / John J. Collins -- Expectations about the end of time in the Hebrew Bible : do they exist? / Bob Becking -- Exile and return from Jerusalem / David J. Bryan -- The satirical nature of the book of Daniel / David Valeta -- Not with a bang but a whimper : shrunken eschatologies of the twentieth century--and the Bible / Yvonne Sherwood -- Jesus, the Temple, and the dissolution of heaven and earth / Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis -- Visionary elements in the transfiguration narrative / Paulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira -- The Apocalypse in history : the place of the book of Revelation in Christian theology and life / Christopher Rowland -- Apocalyptic book illustration in the early Middle Ages / Henry Mayr-Harting -- Millennialism and sect formation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Bryan Wilson -- The fall of the house (of cards) of Ussher : why the world as we know it did not end at sunset on 22 October 1997 / John Jarick -- Max Weber on the watchtower : on the prophetic use of Shakespeare's sonnet 102 in Politics as a vocation / David J. Chalcraft -- Tolkien's eschatology of hope : from Ragnarok to joyous subcreation / Christopher Garbowski -- The horror! The whore! : the abomination of desolation and Conrad's Heart of darkness / Larry J. Kreitzer.