ABSTRACT
The concept 'story' can also be applied to identity-forming events in the past, which are present now in the form of collective or individual memory and which can be kept alive through 'commemorative figures'. By reverting back to the story of the battle with chaos, the story experienced in the present can be told in such a way that the two stories converge and this serves to establish meaning. This shared community is now undoubtedly broken, on account of the historical distance between historical readers today and the real author of the apocalypses. The question of what holds the possibility of disclosure for us pulls people up sharp against the phenomenon that apocalyptic narratives no longer say anything to people. When the author of an apocalypse narrates a story in the form of an esoteric revelation he gives the readers a significant pointer for perceiving their own stories.
