An edition of Millennium
(1998)
Millennium
Apocalypse and Antichrist and Old English monsters, c. 1000 A.D.
1st Cross Cultural Publication ed.
by Zacharias P. Thundy
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Millennium: Apocalypse and Antichrist and Old English monsters, c. 1000 A.D.
1998, Cross Cultural Publications
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- 1st Cross Cultural Publication ed.
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Prefaceix
INTRODUCTION Millennium-Wisdom and Folly1
Calendrics and Convenience 3
Computronics and Catastrophe 4
Apocalypse and Crisis Management 5
Apocalypse and Insanity? 8
APOCALYPSE AND ANTICHRIST IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM
CHAPTER 1 Apocalyptic Tradition13
Apocalypse14
Apocalypse as Literary Genre14
Eschatology as Apocalypse15
Non-Jewish Apocalypse16
Asian Apocalypses17
Biblical Apocalypses20
Parabiblical Eschatology24
CHAPTER 2 John's Apocalypse as Literature33
Title,Authorship, and Date33
Apocalypse and the Canon34
Apocalypse and Intertextuality34
Content35
Two Revelations and Two Ecstasies36
Ring/Chiasmic Structure37
Numerical Structure41
Interludes/Digressions 41
Images/Symbols42
Theology as Eschatology42
Apocalypse as Anti-Roman Scripture43
Ethics ofVengeance45
CHAPTER 3 Apocalypse in Literature: East andWest49
Christian Apocalypses:A Common Tradition49
The Apocalypse of Paul50
The Sibylline Oracles51
East-West:A SharedTradition52
Christian East 55
Christian West 59
CHAPTER 4 Antichrist: East andWest 67
Antichrist in the New Testament69
An Early Tradition 72
Spiritual Antichrist in theWest 74
Antichrist in the East74
The Legend of the Last Emperor79
Islam as A ntichrist80
Byzantine Date of the End of the World83
Migration ofApocalypses from East to West84
APOCALYPTIC TRADITION OF EARLY ENGLAND
CHAPTER 5 The English of the Millennium: A Heresy93
Anglo-Saxon Invasion: Facts and Fiction94
The Mercian Heresy104
Linguistics and Mercians108
Revisionist Conclusion111
CHAPTER 6 TheWorld ofAnglo-Saxons:West-East117
Evidence from Archeology117
Travelers and Scholars:West and Beyond 119
Anglo-Saxons and the East126
CHAPTER 7 Anglo-Saxon Preaching:Apocalypse and Antichrist 137
Millennium and Doomsday138
Doom14 0
CHAPTER 8 The Road toValhalla: Germanic Apocalypses157
CHAPTER 9 BeowulfApocalypse and Antichrist167
Eschatological Themes172
Apocalyptic Techniques178
Monsters as Historical Allegories185
Rome as an Allegory of Evil in Early Christianity188
The Dragon: Cain's Seed, Heretics, and Islam192
Antichrist in Beowulf200
The Spirit of Beowulfian Apocalypse211
CONCLUSION Fuzzy Literature221
Appendix231
Bibliography 241
Index251.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-250) and index.
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