Apocalypse

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Final Synthetic Essay

Interdisciplinary Thinking or Synthetic
The definition of synthetic is “not natural or genuine artificial or contrived.”(Webster’s Dict.) It is anything that is prepared or made artificially. In this class Dr Holm would give us a topic to discuss and as a group we express our thoughts about the topic. This is what is known as interdisciplinary thinking which means that I can draw my own ideas about the information in this course. Working in groups has really helped me to learn a lot, from working with others. The combination of our ideas into a complex whole helped us to get a better understanding of the material. Our views on the topics that we discuss were a lot easier to grasp after we discussed them. Because of these class discussions I understood the information presented in this class. This was a great help to me in understanding the pre- apocalyptic information in the beginning of the class.
Apocalypse as a Jewish and Christian Lit genre 250bce-250ce
Apocalyptic means the revealing or unveiling of what is to come. It is a narrative story in which other worldly beings give revelation from God to a human. The revelation involves God’s secrets of time and space. Prophetic eschatology envisions God achieving divine plans within the framework of human history by the means of human agents. Apocalyptic eschatology finds hope mainly in the future. This hope is possibly because God is wishing to bring to an end this evil world. Apocalyptic eschatology might not even be concerned with the destruction of world rather than the retribution after death. This is where the apocalyptic eschatology talks about the righteous being rewarded and the wicked being punished. (Reddish pg20) The first thing that happens in an apocalypse is revelatory literature, this where the author states that he had a divine revelation. The next thing that happens is the human receiver of the revelation is normally presented as a...