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1 online resource (654 p.) |
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Rewriting Antiquity Ser |
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Rewriting Antiquity Ser
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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35. Knowing one's place: Eschatological thought in Augustine |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Pollmann, Karla
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Van Noorden, Helen
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| ISBN |
9781315459479 |
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1315459477 |
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