TY - BOOK ID - 135978527 TI - Apocalypse now ? : Studien zur Intertextualität und Intermedialität der Johannesapokalypse von Dante bis Darksiders AU - Alkier, Stefan AU - Paulsen, Thomas AU - Dittmann, Simon PY - 2022 SN - 9783374072392 3374072399 9783374072408 PB - Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, DB - UniCat KW - Rezeption KW - Apokalyptik KW - Intertextualität KW - Intermedialität KW - Rezeption KW - Literatur KW - Kunst KW - Computerspiel UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135978527 AB - The Apocalypse of John was accepted into the New Testament canon as a book of universal hope. But how did its prophetic comforting message of hope evolve into a book of cosmological terror and doomsday scenarios letting »apocalypse« understand as climax of »catastrophe«? The contributions of the volume arised from a jointly organized interdisciplinary seminar of the classical philologist Thomas Paulsen and the New Testament scholar Stefan Alkier. They discuss the reduction of the Apocalypse of John down to a book of catastrophe from Dante Alighieri to Martin Luther up to Terry Pratchett and the video game Darksiders. This reveals how much the history of the reception shape and sometimes even distort the perception of this fascinating book of a cosmological theology. ER -