ABSTRACT
Judaism is not a millennial movement, but the religious and broad sociocultural heritage of Judaism does manifest deep eschatological influences. Jewish apocalypticism is not central to the revelation, as given in the Thora, but has, through changing events gradually progressed and varied in form, at various times and places in history. If one considers that from the Maccabee period (mid-2 BCE) to the Bar-Kochbar protest (135 CE), eschatological explanations were attributed to all revolts against external rulers as well as to the internal Jewish violent conflicts, then certainly the contemporary experience must be taken into account as a determining factor in the formulation of this thinking.
