HISTORY 497.01E: MILLENNIALISM AND APOCALYPTICISM COURSE SYLLABUS: FALL 2016 Albrecht Durer, The Revelation of St. John: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1497-98) Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe Instructor: Professor John Howard Smith Course Location/Time: Ferguson Social Sciences 150 / Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30-1:45 p.m. Office Location: Ferguson Social Sciences 117 Office Hours: Mondays, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 2:00-4:00, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00-4:00 p.m., or by appointment Office Phone: 903-886-5219 Office Fax: 903-468-3230 University Email Address:
[email protected] 2 COURSE INFORMATION Materials – Textbooks, Readings, Supplementary Readings: Textbooks Required: The Bible (any version will do, though the KJV has more of a poetic ring to it) Paul Boyer, When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. ISBN10 0-674-95129-8 Norman Cohn, Cosmos, Chaos, & the World to Come: The Ancient Sources of Apocalyptic Faith, 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. ISBN10 0- 300-09088-9 Robert Fuller, Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN10 0-19-510979-1 Hal Lindsey and C. C. Carlson, The Late Great Planet Earth. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1970. ISBN10 0-310-27771-X Various Xeroxed Handouts A Proviso: Students considering purchasing e-book versions of any of the course texts using devices such as the Kindle or the Nook, need to be aware that because of the readers’ font size-changing ability that knowing the “analog” page numbers for any section of the text cannot always be known with proper exactitude.