The Apocalypse of Empire : : Imperial Eschatology in Late Antiquity and Early Islam / / Stephen J. Shoemaker.
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. Shoema...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Apocalypse Against Empire or Apocalypse Through Empire?: The Shifting Politics of the Apocalyptic Imagination
- Chapter 2. The Rise of Imperial Apocalypticism in Late Antiquity: Christian Rome and the Kingdom of God
- Chapter 3. Awaiting the End of the World in Early Byzantium: Shifting Imperial Fortunes and Firm Eschatological Faith
- Chapter 4. Armilos and Kay Bahrām: Imperial Eschatology in Late Ancient Judaism and Zoroastrianism
- Chapter 5. “The Reign of God Has Come”: Eschatology and Community in Early Islam
- Chapter 6. From Jerusalem to Constantinople: Imperial Eschatology and the Rise of Islam
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments