The Origins and Early Development of the Antichrist Myth / / Gregory C. Jenks.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Theology and Religious Studies 1990 - 1999
• VerfasserIn: Jenks, Gregory C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft , 59
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 1. THE QUESTION OF THE ANTICHRIST MYTH -- I. THE ANTICHRIST MYTH IN THE THIRD CENTURY CE -- 2. INTRODUCTION: THE WITNESSES AND THE PERIOD -- 3. USE OF SCRIPTURE TO ELUCIDATE THE MYTH -- 4. SKETCHES OF THE ANTICHRIST FIGURE -- 5. THE ACTIVITY OF THE ANTICHRIST FIGURE -- II. ANTECEDENT TRADITIONS TO THE ANTICHRIST MYTH -- 6. INTRODUCTION: THE SEARCH FOR ORIGINS -- 7. DEMONIC POWERS IN EARLY JEWISH WRITINGS -- 8. ANTIOCHUS IV IN JEWISH TRADITION -- 9. ASPECTS OF HELLENISTIC JEWISH WRITINGS WITH PARALLELS TO THE LATER ANTICHRIST LITERATURE -- III. THE EMERGING ANTICHRIST MYTH -- 10. INTRODUCTION: CONVERGING STRANDS IN JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN LITERATURE PRIOR TO 175 CE -- 11. THE ENDTYRANT TRADITIONS PRIOR TO 70 CE -- 12. THE ENDTYRANT TRADITIONS AFTER 70 CE -- 13. THE EARLIEST ANTICHRIST TRADITIONS -- 14. CONCLUSION: THE ORIGINS OF THE ANTICHRIST MYTH -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX