Volker Leppin and Vasileios Marinis discuss apocalypse, prophecy, and difficult interpretation in Mark 13:24-37. The text is appointed for the First Sunday of Advent in Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary.

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Volker Leppin is Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale Divinity School. Vasileios Marinis is Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at Yale Divinity School.

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