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Eschatology in Antiquity

Author : Hilary Marlow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315459493
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Eschatology in Antiquity written by Hilary Marlow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the rhetoric and practices surrounding views on life after death and the end of the world, including the fate of the individual, apocalyptic speculation and hope for cosmological renewal, in a wide range of societies from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Byzantine era. The 42 essays by leading scholars in each field explore the rich spectrum of ways in which eschatological understanding can be expressed, and for which purposes it can be used. Readers will gain new insight into the historical contexts, details, functions and impact of eschatological ideas and imagery in ancient texts and material culture from the twenty-fifth century BCE to the ninth century CE. Traditionally, the study of “eschatology” (and related concepts) has been pursued mainly by scholars of Jewish and Christian scripture. By broadening the disciplinary scope but remaining within the clearly defined geographical milieu of the Mediterranean, this volume enables its readers to note comparisons and contrasts, as well as exchanges of thought and transmission of eschatological ideas across Antiquity. Cross-referencing, high quality illustrations and extensive indexing contribute to a rich resource on a topic of contemporary interest and relevance. Eschatology in Antiquity is aimed at readers from a wide range of academic disciplines, as well as non-specialists including seminary students and religious leaders. The primary audience will comprise researchers in relevant fields including Biblical Studies, Classics and Ancient History, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Art History, Late Antiquity, Byzantine Studies and Cultural Studies. Care has been taken to ensure that the essays are accessible to undergraduates and those without specialist knowledge of particular subject areas.

The Apocalypse of Empire

Author : Stephen J. Shoemaker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812250400
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Apocalypse of Empire written by Stephen J. Shoemaker and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Apocalypse of Empire, Stephen J. Shoemaker argues that earliest Islam was a movement driven by urgent eschatological belief that focused on the conquest, or liberation, of the biblical Holy Land and situates this belief within a broader cultural environment of apocalyptic anticipation. Shoemaker looks to the Qur'an's fervent representation of the imminent end of the world and the importance Muhammad and his earliest followers placed on imperial expansion. Offering important contemporary context for the imperial eschatology that seems to have fueled the rise of Islam, he surveys the political eschatologies of early Byzantine Christianity, Judaism, and Sasanian Zoroastrianism at the advent of Islam and argues that they often relate imperial ambition to beliefs about the end of the world. Moreover, he contends, formative Islam's embrace of this broader religious trend of Mediterranean late antiquity provides invaluable evidence for understanding the beginnings of the religion at a time when sources are generally scarce and often highly problematic. Scholarship on apocalyptic literature in early Judaism and Christianity frequently maintains that the genre is decidedly anti-imperial in its very nature. While it may be that early Jewish apocalyptic literature frequently displays this tendency, Shoemaker demonstrates that this quality is not characteristic of apocalypticism at all times and in all places. In the late antique Mediterranean as in the European Middle Ages, apocalypticism was regularly associated with ideas of imperial expansion and triumph, which expected the culmination of history to arrive through the universal dominion of a divinely chosen world empire. This imperial apocalypticism not only affords an invaluable backdrop for understanding the rise of Islam but also reveals an important transition within the history of Western doctrine during late antiquity.

Apocalypticism and Eschatology in Late Antiquity

Author : Hagit Amirav
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789042935372
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (353 download)

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Book Synopsis Apocalypticism and Eschatology in Late Antiquity by : Hagit Amirav

Download or read book Apocalypticism and Eschatology in Late Antiquity written by Hagit Amirav and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology

Author : Jerry L. Walls Professor of Philosophy of Religion Asbury Theological Seminary
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199727635
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology by : Jerry L. Walls Professor of Philosophy of Religion Asbury Theological Seminary

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology written by Jerry L. Walls Professor of Philosophy of Religion Asbury Theological Seminary and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eschatology is the study of the last things: death, judgment, the afterlife, and the end of the world. Through centuries of Christian thoughtfrom the early Church fathers through the Middle Ages and the Reformationthese issues were of the utmost importance. In other religions, too, eschatological concerns were central. After the Enlightenment, though, many religious thinkers began to downplay the importance of eschatology which, in light of rationalism, came to be seen as something of an embarrassment. The twentieth century, however, saw the rise of phenomena that placed eschatology back at the forefront of religious thought. From the rapid expansion of fundamentalist forms of Christianity, with their focus on the end times; to the proliferation of apocalyptic new religious movements; to the recent (and very public) debates about suicide, martyrdom, and paradise in Islam, interest in eschatology is once again on the rise. In addition to its popular resurgence, in recent years some of the worlds most important theologians have returned eschatology to its former position of prominence. The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology will provide an important critical survey of this diverse body of thought and practice from a variety of perspectives: biblical, historical, theological, philosophical, and cultural. This volume will be the primary resource for students, scholars, and others interested in questions of our ultimate existence.

Origen: Philosophy of History & Eschatology

Author : Panayiotis Tzamalikos
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047428692
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Origen: Philosophy of History & Eschatology by : Panayiotis Tzamalikos

Download or read book Origen: Philosophy of History & Eschatology written by Panayiotis Tzamalikos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against claims that Origen causes History to evaporate into barren idealism, his theology is shown to have no other source and aim than historical occurences. Fronting assertions that he has no eschatological ideas, this Eschatology is explicated in all its clarity. Light is cast upon the Aristotelian character of Origen’s doctrine of apokatastasis, proving this based on ontological necessity, not a historical one.

Occidental Eschatology

Author : Jacob Taubes
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804760284
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Occidental Eschatology written by Jacob Taubes and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occidental Eschatology is a study of apocalypticism and its effects on Western philosophy. One of the great Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century, Taubes published only this one book during his life, and here the English translation finally becomes available.

Revealed Wisdom and Inaugurated Eschatology in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

Author : Grant Macaskill
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047419243
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Revealed Wisdom and Inaugurated Eschatology in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity by : Grant Macaskill

Download or read book Revealed Wisdom and Inaugurated Eschatology in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity written by Grant Macaskill and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines four texts—1 Enoch, 4QInstruction, Matthew and 2 Enoch—and argues that in each the revealing of wisdom to an elect group inaugurates the eschatological period. This idea leads to the fusion of sapiential and apocalyptic elements.

Art and Immortality in the Ancient Near East

Author : Mehmet-Ali Ataç
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107154952
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Art and Immortality in the Ancient Near East by : Mehmet-Ali Ataç

Download or read book Art and Immortality in the Ancient Near East written by Mehmet-Ali Ataç and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far from being a Judeo-Christian invention, apocalyptic thought had its roots in the ancient Near East and was expressed in its art.

From Protology to Eschatology

Author : Joseph Verheyden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783161610097
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book From Protology to Eschatology written by Joseph Verheyden and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference held in Leuven in June 2017 as a follow-up to a previous meeting that dealt with views on the origin of the cosmos in Greek philosophical and early Christian tradition (published in STAC 104, 2017). The second conference focused on how both traditions have reflected on the end or the goal towards which the cosmos is moving. The Judeo-Christian concept of a creation with temporal development and the philosophical notion of the eternity of the world evidently represent two very different positions. Yet there are also clear signs of convergence and of the latter influencing the former. The essays show there is common interest in reflecting not only on the principles that govern cosmology and on how the cosmos is reverting on its principles, but also on the answers provided in each tradition.

Peoples of the Apocalypse

Author : Wolfram Brandes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110472635
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Peoples of the Apocalypse written by Wolfram Brandes and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses Jewish, Christian and Muslim future visions on the end of the world, focusing on the respective allies and antagonists for each religious society. Spanning late Antiquity to the early modern period, the collected papers examine distinctive aspects represented by each religion’s approach as well as shared concepts.

The Salvation of Israel

Author : Jeremy Cohen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501764764
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Salvation of Israel written by Jeremy Cohen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salvation of Israel investigates Christianity's eschatological Jew: the role and characteristics of the Jews at the end of days in the Christian imagination. It explores the depth of Christian ambivalence regarding these Jews, from Paul's Epistle to the Romans, through late antiquity and the Middle Ages, to the Puritans of the seventeenth century. Jeremy Cohen contends that few aspects of a religion shed as much light on the character and the self-understanding of its adherents as its expectations for the end of time. Moreover, eschatological beliefs express and mold an outlook toward nonbelievers, situating them in an overall scheme of human history and conditioning interaction with them as that history unfolds. Cohen's close readings of biblical commentary, theological texts, and Christian iconography reveal the dual role of the Jews of the last days. For rejecting belief and salvation in Jesus Christ, they have been linked to the false messiah—the Antichrist, the agent of Satan and the exemplary embodiment of evil. Yet from its inception, Christianity has also hinged its hopes for the second coming on the enlightenment and repentance of the Jews; for then, as Paul prophesized, "all Israel will be saved." In its vast historical scope, from the ancient Mediterranean world of early Christianity to seventeenth-century England and New England, The Salvation of Israel offers a nuanced and insightful assessment of Christian attitudes toward Jews, rife with inconsistency and complexity, thus contributing significantly to our understanding of Jewish-Christian relations.

The Discursive Fight over Religious Texts in Antiquity

Author : Anders-Christian Jacobsen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8779346588
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book The Discursive Fight over Religious Texts in Antiquity written by Anders-Christian Jacobsen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes of Religion and Normativity presents the latest research in three central fields. Volume I discusses the construction of normative texts in early Christianity and Judaism, including canon formation, the question of authoritative interpretation of canon, and the re-writing of normative texts in new situations. Among other things, the authors employ literary theories and memory construction.

The Antichrist Tradition in Antiquity

Author : Mateusz Kusio
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161593464
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis The Antichrist Tradition in Antiquity by : Mateusz Kusio

Download or read book The Antichrist Tradition in Antiquity written by Mateusz Kusio and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Was the idea of the ancient tradition surrounding the Antichrist present in related forms among both Jews and Christians? Mateusz Kusio reveals an anti-messianic tradition involving a variety of eschatological antagonists in conflict with diverse messianic actors that stretches across both Jewish and Christian corpora and revolves around a set of similar motifs, ideas, and core Biblical texts." --

Apocalyptic Thinking in Early Judaism

Author : Cecilia Wassen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004358382
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Apocalyptic Thinking in Early Judaism written by Cecilia Wassen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Apocalyptic Thinking leading experts critically engage with John Collins’ seminal study The Apocalyptic Imagination and advance the debate on ancient Jewish apocalyptic with articles on current topics with a special focus on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

History and Eschatology

Author : Rudolf Bultmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book History and Eschatology written by Rudolf Bultmann and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity

Author : Alexei Sivertsev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107009081
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity by : Alexei Sivertsev

Download or read book Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity written by Alexei Sivertsev and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the influence of Roman imperialism on the development of Messianic themes in Judaism.

Meaning in History

Author : Karl Löwith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616229X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Meaning in History written by Karl Löwith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern man sees with one eye of faith and one eye of reason. Consequently, his view of history is confused. For centuries, the history of the Western world has been viewed from the Christian or classical standpoint—from a deep faith in the Kingdom of God or a belief in recurrent and eternal life-cycles. The modern mind, however, is neither Christian nor pagan—and its interpretations of history are Christian in derivation and anti-Christian in result. To develop this theory, Karl Löwith—beginning with the more accessible philosophies of history in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries and working back to the Bible—analyzes the writings of outstanding historians both in antiquity and in Christian times. "A book of distinction and great importance. . . . The author is a master of philosophical interpretation, and each of his terse and substantial chapters has the balance of a work of art."—Helmut Kuhn, Journal of Philosophy