Millennium
Subtitle: Apocalypse and Antichrist and Old English monsters, c. 1000 A.D.
By: Zacharias P. Thundy.
Edition: 1st Cross Cultural Publication ed.
Publisher: Cross Cultural Publications
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism.; Antichrist -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.; Monsters in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-250) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Prefaceix; title: INTRODUCTION Millennium-Wisdom and Folly1; title: Calendrics and Convenience 3; title: Computronics and Catastrophe 4; title: Apocalypse and Crisis Management 5; title: Apocalypse and Insanity? 8; title: APOCALYPSE AND ANTICHRIST IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM; title: CHAPTER 1 Apocalyptic Tradition13; title: Apocalypse14; title: Apocalypse as Literary Genre14; title: Eschatology as Apocalypse15; title: Non-Jewish Apocalypse16; title: Asian Apocalypses17; title: Biblical Apocalypses20; title: Parabiblical Eschatology24; title: CHAPTER 2 John's Apocalypse as Literature33; title: Title,Authorship, and Date33; title: Apocalypse and the Canon34; title: Apocalypse and Intertextuality34; title: Content35; title: Two Revelations and Two Ecstasies36; title: Ring/Chiasmic Structure37; title: Numerical Structure41; title: Interludes/Digressions 41; title: Images/Symbols42; title: Theology as Eschatology42; title: Apocalypse as Anti-Roman Scripture43; title: Ethics ofVengeance45; title: CHAPTER 3 Apocalypse in Literature: East andWest49; title: Christian Apocalypses:A Common Tradition49; title: The Apocalypse of Paul50; title: The Sibylline Oracles51; title: East-West:A SharedTradition52; title: Christian East 55; title: Christian West 59; title: CHAPTER 4 Antichrist: East andWest 67; title: Antichrist in the New Testament69; title: An Early Tradition 72; title: Spiritual Antichrist in theWest 74; title: Antichrist in the East74; title: The Legend of the Last Emperor79; title: Islam as A ntichrist80; title: Byzantine Date of the End of the World83; title: Migration ofApocalypses from East to West84; title: APOCALYPTIC TRADITION OF EARLY ENGLAND; title: CHAPTER 5 The English of the Millennium: A Heresy93; title: Anglo-Saxon Invasion: Facts and Fiction94; title: The Mercian Heresy104; title: Linguistics and Mercians108; title: Revisionist Conclusion111; title: CHAPTER 6 TheWorld ofAnglo-Saxons:West-East117; title: Evidence from Archeology117; title: Travelers and Scholars:West and Beyond 119; title: Anglo-Saxons and the East126; title: CHAPTER 7 Anglo-Saxon Preaching:Apocalypse and Antichrist 137; title: Millennium and Doomsday138; title: Doom14 0; title: CHAPTER 8 The Road toValhalla: Germanic Apocalypses157; title: CHAPTER 9 BeowulfApocalypse and Antichrist167; title: Eschatological Themes172; title: Apocalyptic Techniques178; title: Monsters as Historical Allegories185; title: Rome as an Allegory of Evil in Early Christianity188; title: The Dragon: Cain's Seed, Heretics, and Islam192; title: Antichrist in Beowulf200; title: The Spirit of Beowulfian Apocalypse211; title: CONCLUSION Fuzzy Literature221; title: Appendix231; title: Bibliography 241; title: Index251.