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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.
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
