Zombies in America and at Qumran: AMC's The Walking Dead, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Apocalyptic Redux
The surging popularity of zombies in modern American fiction, film, and television is rooted in a form of a-religious apocalypticism: a fatalistic view of the world and the future without any hope for deliverance. This worldview contains a handful of intriguing similarities with the ancient Jewish...
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University of Saskatchewan
[2015]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2015, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 148-163 |
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Apocalypticism
B Zombies B Dead Sea Scrolls B modern American horror films and television B Early Judaism B Biblical Interpretation |
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