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With the release of the 12th and final book of the Left Behind series (though a prequel and sequel are scheduled), the phenomenon has once again shocked media elites. The nearly two million print-run sold out before the book even went on sale prompting news coverage. Newsweekput the writing duo of Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins on its cover. The series is almost ten years old, however, and Christianity Today and its sister publications have been following it for some time.

Our original review of Left Behind: The Bible Study at the End of the World | Recent novels by evangelical leaders say more about popular American Christianity than about the end times (Sept. 1, 1997)

Newsweek catches up to Left Behind | What more can be said about the Left Behind series? Not much, though this week's Newsweek cover story tries to go for one less-played angle
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted May 20, 2004

Weblog: Time's Up? | Have You Heard About the Left Behind Book Series? Time Apparently Hadn't
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted May 20, 2004

No Longer Left Behind | An insider's look at how Christian books are agented, acquired, packaged, branded, and sold in today's marketplace.
By Steve Rabey | posted April 12, 2002

Bible Prophecy Sales Boom | Whether scholarship or fiction, prophetic books are top sellers after September 11.
By Mark A. Kellner | posted Oct. 28, 2001

Left Behind Has Been Very, Very Good to Tyndale | Success leaves publisher wondering how to best steward the company's increase.
By Corrie Cutrer | posted Oct. 17, 2000

Weblog: Readers Apparently Enraptured with Latest Left Behind, Now #1 | The Indwelling hits number one on New York Times bestseller list
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted June 9, 2000

Christian Fiction Gets Real | New novels offer gritty plots and nuanced characters—but can they find a market?
By Susan Wise Bauer | May 11, 2000

Amassed Media: Why The New Republic likes Millennialism | Millennialism in The New Republic
Compiled by Ted Olsen | November 3, 1999

Apocalyptic Sales Out of This World | With its fast-paced plots and high-velocity sales, the Left Behind fiction series has popularized pretribulational premillennialism much as Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness interested readers in spiritual warfare in the 1980s
By Steve Rabey | March 1, 1999

Few Flashes of Creativity Enliven Left Behind 2 | Tribulation Force will satisfy those who feel the movies are meant to explicitly preach the gospel.
By Douglas LeBlanc | posted Nov. 14, 2002

Author LaHaye Sues Left Behind Film Producers | Producers didn't make the blockbuster they promised, he says.
By Michael R. Smith | posted March 28, 2001

At the Box Office, Left Behind Gets … Well, You Know | Moviegoers not enraptured by Left Behind: The Movie
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted February 5, 2001

Horror Stories for Christians | Believers dream again of a breakthrough film. Left Behind is not it.
By Douglas LeBlanc | posted Dec. 6, 2000

Cameras Rolling | Bestseller Left Behind's big-screen debut set for 2001.
By Denyse O'Leary in Toronto | posted July 14, 2000

Christian Filmmakers Jump on End-times Bandwagon | Bestseller Left Behind is slated for the big screen (Oct. 25, 1999)

The Dick Staub Interview: Jerry Jenkins's Solo Apocalypse | His new novel, Soon, imagines a world where religion, blamed for war, is banned.
Sept. 16, 2003

Surviving Soul Survivor | A business guide to Tim LaHaye's other series.
By Jeremy Lott | posted Oct. 30, 2002

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