Eschatology in Antiquity : Forms and Functions

by: Marlow, H. Pollmann, K. Van Noorden, H.

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Eschatology in AntiquityForms and Functions

Edited By Hilary Marlow, Karla Pollmann, Helen Van Noorden

Description
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.

Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Helen Van Noorden, Hilary Marlow and Karla Pollmann
Section 1: Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible
1 Beyond the Future: Mesopotamian Perceptions of the Very End
Dina Katz
2 Individual and Universal Eschatology in Zoroastrianism
Leon Goldman
3 Egyptian Oracles and the Afterlife
Alexandre Loktionov
4 Eschatology in the Book of Isaiah: Multiple Perspectives on the Promised Times
Uta Schmidt
5 "As I Looked": Visionary Experiences and Conceptions of Place in the Book of Ezekiel
Hilary Marlow
6 Daniel and Daniel Apocalyptica
Lester L. Grabbe
Section 2: Greek World
7 Beyond the Stream of the Ocean: Hades, the Aethiopians and the Homeric eschata
George A. Gazis
8 ?Orphic? Eschatologies? Varying Visions
of the Afterlife in Greek Thought
Radcliffe Edmonds
9 Eschatological Visions in Pindar and Empedocles
Chiara R. Ciampa
10 Plato?s Myths, the Soul and its Intra-cosmic Future
Alex Long
11 Contemplating the End of Roman Power: Polybius' Histories in Context
Nicolas Wiater
Section 3: Jewish Texts of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
12 Protology and Eschatology in the Enochic Traditions
Gabriele Boccaccini
13 Dreams and Visions of Eschatological Trees in The Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36)
Frances Flannery
14 Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The End as Counter-Cultural Discourse on Society and Creation
Albert Hogeterp
15 Returning from the Diaspora of the Soul: Eschatology in Philo of Alexandria
Sami Yli-Karjanmaa
16 End Times and Ending Times in 4 Ezra
Carla Sulzbach
17 Eschatology in the Early Jewish Pseudepigrapha and the Early Christian Apocrypha
Lorenzo DiTommaso
Section 4: Etruscan and Roman Worlds
18 Etruscan eschata
L. Bouke van der Meer
19 Hope and Empire in Ciceronian Eschatology
Jed W. Atkins
20 Lucretius ?On the Nature of Things?: Eschatology in an Age of Anxiety
Alessandro Schiesaro
21 Eschatological Temporalities in Vergil?s Elysium
Giovanna Laterza
22 The End is the Beginning is the End: Apocalyptic Beginnings in Augustan Poetry
Elena Giusti
23 Eschatology in Seneca: The Senses of an Ending
Gareth Williams
24 Enduring Death and Remembering the Apocalypse: Identity, Timespace, and Lucanian Paradoxes
Katharine M. Earnshaw
25 Popular Eschatological Visions in the Roman Empire
Jerry Toner
26 Four Eschatological Emperors: Augustus, Nero, Vespasian and Hadrian
Christopher Star
Section 5: New Testament texts
27 The End of the Temple or the End of the World? 1st Century Eschatology in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew
Sarah Underwood Dixon
28 The End—What and When? Eschatology in Luke-Acts
Steve Walton
29 Eschatology in the Gospel of John and the Johannine Epistles
Jörg Frey
30 Eschatology—Pauline and Catholic Epistles
Eve-Marie Becker
31 The Book of Revelation: The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ
Christopher Rowland
Section 6: Late Antiquity and Byzantine World
32 Eschatology in Origen from Alexandria
Anders-Christian Jacobsen
33 Eschatology in Early Christian Poetry
Nikolaus Klassen
34 The Eschatological Thought of Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa
Sergey Trostyanskiy
35 Knowing One?s Place: Eschatological Thought in Augustine
Karla Pollmann
36 Eschatological Motifs and Patterns of Thought in Christian Hagiography
Peter Gemeinhardt
37 Syriac Eschatology in Antiquity
Witold Witakowski
38 Eschatology and Anti-Jewish Polemic: Examples from the Armenian Tradition
Zaroui Pogossian
39 Early Muslim Apocalypses and their Origins
David Cook
40 Christian Eschatology in Late Antique/Byzantine Egypt
David Frankfurter
41 Symbols, Icons, Liturgy: Eschatology in Early Christian Art
Vladimir Cvetkovic
42 Eschatology in the Apocalyptic Revival in Judaism (6th-9th centuries CE) in its Historical Context
Philip Alexander
Index of names and subjects

Eschatology in Antiquity : Forms and Functions

by: Marlow, H. Pollmann, K. Van Noorden, H.

• ISBN-13: 9781032043050 / 978-1-03-204305-0
• ISBN-03: 1032043059 / 1-03-204305-9
• Routledge, London, 2021

Price: 66,64 EURO

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