The Antichrist tradition in Antiquity
Subtitle: Antimessianism in Second Temple and early Christian literature
By: Mateusz Kusio
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe -- 532; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 532.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9783161593468; 9783161597930
Subjects: Antichrist; History of doctrines; Judaism; History; Post-exilic period (Judaism); Messianism
Description: "Was the idea of the ancient tradition surrounding the Antichrist present in related forms among both Jews and Christians? Mateusz Kusio reveals an anti-messianic tradition involving a variety of eschatological antagonists in conflict with diverse messianic actors that stretches across both Jewish and Christian corpora and revolves around a set of similar motifs, ideas, and core Biblical texts." --
Notes: Slight revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-262) and indexes.

Includes quotations in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, or Arabic, some with English translation.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. Introduction; title: Chapter 2. The Hebrew Bible and its reception. Genesis 3 ; Genesis 49:16-18 ; Isaiah 11:4 ; Ezekiel 38-39 ; The Psalms ; Daniel; title: Chapter 3. Dead Sea Scrolls. The War Scroll (1QM) ; 4QTestimonia (4Q175, 4Q379, fr. 22 II) ; 4QApocryphon of Daniel ar (4Q246) ; The Book of War (4Q285 fr. 4, 5) ; 11QMelchizedek (11Q13); title: Chapter 4. The New Testament. The Synoptic Gospels ; The Second Letter to the Thessalonians ; The Johannine Epistles ; The Book of Revelation; title: Chapter 5. Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha. Psalm of Solomon 17 ; Assumption of Moses ; The Sibylline Oracles ; Second Apocalypse of Baruch ; Fourth Book of Ezra ; Ascension of Isaiah ; Apocalypse of Peter ; Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah ; Testament of the Lord; title: Chapter 6. The Church Fathers. Didache ; Irenaeus of Lyon ; Tertullian ; Hippolytus ; Origen ; Commodianus ; Lactantius ; Cyril of Jerusalem ; Tyconius and Augustine; title: Chapter 7. Summary and conclusions. Antimessianism in Jewish and Christian literature ; The Antichrist tradition - its form, sources, and features ; Bousset, or there and back again ; The importance of the Antichrist tradition.