Eschatology in Antiquity

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