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"With the scalpel of a trained biblical scholar, and the inside knowledge of a former fundamentalist preacher, Dr. Price is fully equipped to issue this relentless exposé of how the Left Behind series, among other Christian musings on the apocalypse, actually represent attempts to hide one of the greatest prophetic failures in history." -- Hector Avalos,author of The End of Biblical Studies
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About the Author
Robert M. Price (Selma, NC), professor of scriptural studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary, is the editor (with Jeffery Jay Lowder) of The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave and the Journal of Higher Criticism. He is also the author of Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today’s Pop Mysticisms; The Paperback Apocalypse: How the Christian Church Was Left Behind; The Reason-Driven Life: What Am I Here on Earth For? and many other works.
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Product details
Paperback: 340 pages
Publisher: Prometheus Books (December 6, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1591025834
ISBN-13: 978-1591025832
Product Dimensions:
5.4 x 0.8 x 8.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
12 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#1,978,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This is a wonderful book. It's a book about other books, in this case books which depict the end of the present world as outlined in the biblical book of Revelation. It was inspired by the success of the Jenkins/LaHaye "Left Behind" series of novels.Price begins by examining the origins of such literature in the tragedies of Jewish history after the various Assyrian, Babylonian, and Seleucid conquests. From here he takes a closer look at the features of such literature that are familiar to us and loom large in the current novels - the Antichrist, the Beast, the Second Coming, the Rapture, etc. In particular, he points out that Revelation was a document written for its own time, predicting events that were supposed to happen soon and not at some indeterminate future time. Throughout he argues that LaHaye (and fundamentalists generally) have gotten it all wrong. All this takes us about halfway through the book.Then Price begins a review of apocalyptic novels proper. He distinguishes between novels intended to evangelize and novels merely intended to entertain. As he puts it "The born-again writers were trying to scare you out of hell; these authors are only trying to scare the hell out of you." The reviews are on several levels. Price gives his opinion on how well written they are, how believably they handle the various fantastic events which must occur, how they deal with the moral ambiguities such novels invariably wade into, and also how original they are. Price is clearly a fan of this genre.The Left Behind series gets its own chapter but it is used throughout the book as sort of a standard that other books are held to and of fundamentalist positions in general. He is particularly hard on Jenkins' and LaHaye's anti-intellectualism.Throughout his reviews Price comes off as somewhat caustic but not excessively so. He seems to be trying hard to be fair.There is a nice bit of unintended (I think) humor in the book. Price once uses the expression "Jack Squat" in the text. Sure enough, the computer program that indexed the book has an entry for "Squat, Jack"!Nonbelievers will love this book. Believers will be less pleased, of course, but there is still value for them in the book - seeing the genre through other eyes. Recommended for all but those who just can't stand cherished beliefs criticized.
Paperback Apocalypse / 978-1-59102-583-2I would have bought "Paperback Apocalypse" anyway, just because I'm a huge fan of Robert Price, but I have a secondary interest in the "Left Behind" phenomena courtesy of Fred Clark's Slactivist "Left Behind" writings, where he deconstructs the genre literally a page at a time. And while I realize that Price could never have come close to that level of detail in a slim paperback volume, I still expected so much more.In the opening pages of "Paperback Apocalypse", Price admits to being a devoted fan of apocalyptic fiction, and perhaps therein lies the root of the problem. The layout of this book is poor; the tone flits between highly conversational and deeply scholarly and seems somewhat uncomfortable with either approach.With regards to the layout: Price starts initially with Messianic prophecy, rather than apocalyptic (i.e. 'end times') prophecy. This is not a bad topic for consideration, but it is jarring when the purported focus of this book is end times prophecy and the "Left Behind" phenomena. Indeed, much of the Messianic prophecy here probably could and should have been part of a separate novel, rather than this one. When Price does get to end time prophecy, he chooses to deal with Biblical prophecy first, then provide summaries of various "Left Behind"-esque fictional works, and then provide a final, more in-depth summary of the actual "Left Behind" writings of LaHaye and Jenkins. This last bit is, for all intents and purposes, the last chapter in the book, which feels jarring. To my mind, a better layout would have been to outline "Left Behind" first, tie in other similar works of fiction, and *then* carefully dissect where the information is supposedly located in the Bible and why those passages are interpreted differently by Price.As for the tone: The opening chapters dealing with Messianic prophecy and end times prophecy are, for the most part, deeply scholarly, whereas the later "summarize every end times book and movie" chapters are extremely conversational - but not in a good way. Price cannot seem to decide how harsh he wants to appear with regards to the LaHaye/Jenkins books - he repeatedly reassures us that Jenkins is a very skilled writer (a contention that I, personally, disagree with), and that the Narm moments in the series occur not because of bad writing but because of bad theology. However, I think it is foolish to assume that all the bad elements of "Left Behind" are rooted in bad theology and not bad writing - after all, if you have Strawman Jews filling your novel in order to serve your theological purposes, you are not free from the charge of bad writing: why couldn't Jenkins write *better* Jews instead of silly strawmen ones? And so forth.Random asides from Price (such as the odd revelation that he wants to alter "Real Men Love Jesus" bumper stickers to read "Real Sissies Love Jesus") undermine the scholarly tone and approach; and the blatant summaries of books and movies rather than actually dealing directly with the theology within seem to undermine the point of the book. Is this a scholarly approach, or a movie guide written by a fan of the genre?I hate to criticize Price. I think there's a great deal of value to this book, and a lot of interesting information here - either for people interested in learning about the various "Left Behind" precursors available in the popular media, or for people interested in Messianic prophecy and the roots and reasons behind apocalyptic prophecy. However, the overall marketing of this book - that it illustrates "how the Christian Church was Left Behind" was, in light of all this, a poor move on the editor's part - seemingly an effort to cash in on the many books examining the "Left Behind" phenomena. If that's all your interested, there are better books out there that deal with the subject.~ Ana Mardoll
This book won't be read by the people who need to read it. It will be read by those who really don't need to read it. Price is mostly preaching to the choir. Having said that, this is entertaining reading. Price has an axe to gring with the Christian faith and he does that with great effect here. I wish he had been a little more objective. But it wouldn't have been nearly so much fun to read if that were the case. Price uses reverse apologetics in trying to prove the negative. As a Christian, I readliy admit the Bible has its problems and Price is very effective at homing in on those problems and exploring them in great detail. I find his writing challenging, informative and entertaining all at the same time. What more could you ask from an author? I even learned a new word! Verisimilitude seems to be a favortie of Mr. Price. Get used to it. You will see it a lot here. I highly recommend this book to every reader. It will encourage the non believer, challenge and inform the open minded believer, and infuriate fundamentalists.
Price's writing takes some getting used to - in some ways it is tongue-in-cheek and in other ways it's right on - he uses lots of scripture quotes and passages to make his various points and I almost find myself having to go to a bible to see what is around his quotes - I'm a recovering Catholic and for years have read and continue to read books on the history of Christianity and religious belief in general - having become a skeptic/agnostic (call it what you will) I am truly amazed that so much of the truth about the history of how/what and why we believe has been hidden for so many years
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