The Antichrist Legend
Subtitle: A Chapter in Christian and Jewish Folklore (American Academy of Religion Texts and Translations Series)
Contributors: D. Frankfurter (Introduction); A. H. Keane (Translator)
Publisher: An American Academy of Religion Book
Published: May 8, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780788505416
Subjects: Christian theology; Judaism; Religion; Christianity - Theology - Eschatology; Religion - Theology; Christian Theology - Eschatology; Christian Theology - General; Theology; Religion / Christianity / Theology / Eschatology; Religion / Theology; Religion-Christianity - Theology - General; Religion-Theology; Antichrist; History of doctrines
First sentence: their banks, and diverted into irrigation canals), and until their presiding genins (the reptile or dragon, "lord of chaos") was overthrown. In these respects the Mesopotamian rivers must have assumed, in the eyes of the early Akkadian or pre-Akkadian dwellers on their banks, much the same aspect as did the Achelous and other wild torrents to the early Hellenic settlers in Greece.