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Richard Landes
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Professor of History and Director of the Center for Millennial Studies, Boston University. Author of Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History and co-editor The Apocalyptic Year 1000.

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Fresco The Last Judgment by Michelangelo covers the west wall of the Sistine Chapel, depicting Christ at the center surrounded by angels and human figures in dramatic poses.
Eschatology, the doctrine of the last things. It was originally a Western term, referring to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs about the end of history, the resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment, the messianic era, and the problem of theodicy (the vindication of God’s justice). Historians…
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