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Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time
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by Michael Lieb and Michael Lieb
Sales Rank: 725171
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List Price: $23.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 334 pages
Published by: Duke University Press December 1998
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0822322684
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0822322689
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.1 pounds
From Library Journal
Lieb (English/humanities, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago) explores modern attempts to "technologize" Ezekiel's Old Testament vision of a fiery chariot in the sky?evidence of the technological superiority of God's righteous anger. He shows how the biblical narrative has touched modern cults and political movements such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Latter-Day Saints (Mormons), and the Nation of Islam. UFOs are touched upon, but half of the book looks at the genesis, ideology, and societal impact of the Nation of Islam and Elijah Muhammad, as well as Louis Farrakhan. Lieb views these men as "children of Ezekiel" since both molded various aspects of Ezekiel's vision to fit their modern world views. This thought-provoking and highly original study belongs in most academic libraries.?Gary D. Barber, Silver Creek, NY
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Review
“[A] valuable addition and even correction to current apocalyptic studies and some very useful insights into Milton’s eschatological thought. Its importance, which is considerable, lies in its contention that technology both bestows and absorbs meaning in sacred belief systems, and in the seriousness with which it takes the influence of sacred systems on apparently secular intellectual (or pseudo-intellectual) history.”
--Beth Quitslund, Milton Quarterly
"Lieb is to be commended for plotting the course of a perennially intriguing metaphor from Hebrew Scriptures throughout Western history."
--W. Michael Ashcraft, Nova Religio
“Lieb’s book is an extraordinarily wide-ranging attempt to reveal the deep connections between the many forms of apocalyptic thought in our era. . . . Children of Ezekiel is testament to the importance of taking seriously the religious significance coded into our popular culture, and of studying popular books, films, and speeches with the rigor once reserved for reading poems, novels, and even the Bible. . . . Lieb has performed important intellectual and political work by tracing the long genealogy of these various ‘children of Ezekiel’ and the profound connections between technology and religion in the modern world.”
--In These Times
“Michael Lieb argues passionately about the power of belief. . . . As Lieb describes it, Ezekiel’s vision ‘represents the wellspring of the impulse to fashion a technology out of the ineffable, the inexpressible, the unknowable.’ Using this premise, Lieb unites the work of John Milton, pop UFO beliefs, the film Star Wars, SDI itself, and the teachings of the Nation of Islam.”
--Bookforum
“The themes and ideas of this book are so rich and complex that any attempt to summarize its contents is doomed to oversimplification. . . . It should be required reading for anyone who is concerned about the uneasy relationship between religious belief and political activity in our troubled world.”
--Cithara: Essays in the Judeo-Christian Tradition
“[T]hought-provoking and highly original. . . .”
--Library Journal
“[A] fascinating and highly sophisticated book. . . . Readers of and writers on the Book of Ezekiel ought to read this great book and everybody who is interested in what is going on in technological circles in our time should put this book on their bookshelves. It is an immensely enjoyable, exemplary piece of writing on a biblical vision and its afterlife.”
--Robert Carroll, The Christian Parapsychologist
“As a study in culture and ideas as they interact with a biblical text, this book is a stimulating and provocative study of some rather bizarre phenomena.”
--Michael D. Guinan, Theological Studies
“Historians of technology will find much in this book that resonates with current scholarship on consumers and users of technology and the processes they develop to appropriate, redesign, redefine, or reinterpret the meanings of the technologies they use, experience, or encounter.”
--David Morton, Technology and Culture
“Lieb’s book is the product of remarkable research and scholarship.”
--Philip Leonard, Time and Society
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Skip this book if you're into alien, u.f.o theories.
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