Richard Landes is director of Boston University's Center for Millenial Studies. He tells Judith Strasser that people respond to the Millenium as owls (let's sleep through it!) or roosters (hey, it's a new dawn!) He thinks the Y2K computer problem is consistent with the tradition of apocalyptic prophesies, but worries that human beings have taken on God's role in determining the end of the world.

Sir Henry Chadwick, emeritus professor of divinity at Cambridge University, talks with Steve Paulson about the history of millenialism. He says it comes from people's belief that this world would end a thousand years after the birth of Christ; that the date was frequently re- calculated and that one prediction was that the end would come in 1492!

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