Eschatology in Antiquity by Hilary Marlow -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of figures List of table List of contributors Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction SECTION I Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible

1 Beyond the future: Mesopotamian perceptions of the very end 2 Individual and universal eschatology in Zoroastrianism 3 Egyptian oracles and the afterlife 4 Eschatology in the book of Isaiah: Multiple perspectives on the promised times 5 “As I looked”: Visionary experiences and conceptions of place in the book of Ezekiel 6 Daniel and Daniel apocalyptica

SECTION II Greek World

7 Beyond the stream of the Ocean: Hades, the Aethiopians and the Homeric eschata 8 “Orphic” eschatologies? Varying visions of the afterlife in Greek thought 9 Eschatological visions in Pindar and Empedocles 10 Plato’s myths, the soul and its intra-cosmic future 11 Contemplating the end of Roman power: Polybius’ Histories in context

SECTION III Jewish Texts of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods

12 Protology and eschatology in the Enochic traditions 13 Dreams and visions of eschatological trees in The Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36) 14 Apocalyptic eschatology in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The end as Qumran counter-cultural discourse on society and creation 15 Returning from the diaspora of the soul: Eschatology in Philo of Alexandria 16 End times and ending times in 4 Ezra 17 Eschatology in the early Jewish pseudepigrapha and the early Christian apocrypha

SECTION IV Etruscan and Roman Worlds

18 Etruscan eschata 19 Hope and empire in Ciceronian eschatology 20 Lucretius On The Nature of Things: Eschatology in an age of anxiety 21 Eschatological temporalities in Vergil’s Elysium 22 The end is the beginning is the end: Apocalyptic beginnings in Augustan poetry 23 Eschatology in Seneca: The senses of an ending 24 Enduring death and remembering the apocalypse: Identity, timespace and Lucanian paradoxes 25 Popular eschatological visions in the Roman empire 26 Four eschatological emperors: Augustus, Nero, Vespasian and Hadrian

SECTION V New Testament Texts

27 The end of the temple or the end of the world? First century eschatology in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew 28 The end: What and when? Eschatology in Luke-Acts 29 Eschatology in the Gospel of John and in the Johannine Epistles 30 Eschatology: Pauline and Catholic Epistles 31 The Book of Revelation: The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ

SECTION VI Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds

32 Eschatology in Origen from Alexandria 33 Eschatology in early Christian poetry 34 The eschatological thought of Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa 35 Knowing one’s place: Eschatological thought in Augustine 36 Eschatological motifs and patterns of thought in Christian hagiography 37 Syriac eschatology in antiquity 38 Eschatology and anti-Jewish polemic: Examples from the Armenian tradition 39 Early Muslim apocalypses and their origins 40 Christian eschatology in late antique/Byzantine Egypt 41 Symbols, icons, liturgy: Eschatology in early Christian art 42 Eschatology in the apocalyptic revival in Judaism (sixth to ninth centuries CE) in its historical context

Indices

General Index Index of Non-Biblical Primary Sources Index of Bible References

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