Apocalypticism and Eschatology in Late Antiquity
Encounters in the Abrahamic Religions, 6th-8th Centuries
Amirav H., Grypeou E., Stroumsa G.G., Leuven: Peeters, 2017
Description
This volume includes papers on ancient apocalypticism and eschatology in the crucial period prior to the advent of Islam in the Mediterranean basin, and through the period (the sixth to the eighth centuries) when this new religion took roots and established itself in the area. As these were important social, religious, and cultural phenomena, the contributors to this volume – specialists in Late Antique and Byzantine, Syriac, Jewish, and Arabic studies – have investigated them from a variety of angles and foci, rendering this volume unique in terms of its interdisciplinary approach and broad scope. In this regard, Apocalypticism and Eschatology in Late Antiquity should be read as complimentary to the previous volume in the series, New Themes, New Styles in the Eastern Mediterranean, where similar goals were set and met, namely to understand not only how the Christian and Jewish populations responded to the dramatic political and military changes, but also how they expressed themselves in existing, reinvented, and new literary means at their disposal.
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Table of contents
Foreword and Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Late Antique Apocalyptic: A Context for the Qur’an? – Averil Cameron
‘Their Evil Rule Must End!’ A Commentary on the Iranian Bundahišn – Domenico Agostini
Apocalyptic Thought Written for Monks? Some Texts and Motifs and Their Function in Greek and Syriac Antiquity – Matthias Binder
The Young Daniel: A Syriac Apocalyptic Text on the End, and the Problem of its Dating – Sebastian Brock
The End is Coming—To what End? Millenarian Expectations in the Seventh-Century Eastern Mediterranean – Lutz Greisiger
Managing Anger, Fear and Hope After the Fall of Jerusalem: Anastasius of Sinai, Antiochus, Zacharias of Jerusalem and Sophronius of Jerusalem – Yannis Papadogiannakis
Universal Salvation as an Antidote to Apocalyptic Expectations: Origenism in the Service of Justinian’s Religious Politics – István Perczel
A Revival in Jewish Apocalyptic? Change and Continuity in the Seventh–Eighth Centuries with Special Reference to Pirqe Mashiaḥ – Helen Spurling
Apocalyptic Ideas in Early Medieval Armenia – Robert W. Thomson
Byzantine Greek Apocalypses and the West: A Case Study – Pablo Ubierna
The Eschatological Kerygma of the Early Qur’an – Nicolai Sinai
Apocalypticism in Sunni Hadith – Christopher Melchert
‘A People Will Emerge from the Desert’: Apocalyptic Perceptions of the Early Muslim Conquests in Contemporary Eastern Christian Literature – Emmanouela Grypeou
Bibliography
General Index
Link
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