Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time BKS

Author: Lieb, MichaelBrand: Duke University Press BooksEdition: IllustratedFeatures: Used Book in Good ConditionBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 320Release Date: 30-11-1998Details: Are Milton’s Paradise Lost, Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” missile defense program, our culture’s fascination with UFOs and alien abductions, and Louis Farrakhan’s views on racial Armageddon somehow linked? In Children of Ezekiel Michael Lieb reveals the connections between these phenomena and the way culture has persistently related the divine to the technological. In a work of special interest at the approach of the millennium, Lieb traces these and other diverse cultural moments—all descended from the prophet Ezekiel’s vision of a fiery divine chariot in the sky—from antiquity to the present, across high and low culture, to reveal the pervasive impact of this visionary experience on the modern world. Beginning with the merkabah chariot literature of Hebrew and Gnostic mysticism, Lieb shows how religiously