This volume addresses Jewish, Christian and Muslim future visions on the end of the world, focusing on the respective allies and antagonists for each religious society. Extensive lists of murderous end-time peoples, whether for good or evil, and those who merit salvation hold variably defined roles in end-time scenarios. Spanning late Antiquity to the early modern period, the collected papers examine distinctive aspects represented by each religion’s approach as well as shared concepts.
Author(s): Wolfram Brandes, Felicitas Schmieder, Rebekka Voß
Series: Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 374
City: Berlin
9783110473315
9783110473315
Contents
Introduction
I. Kriegerische Völker / Warsome Peoples
Roms wilde Völker: Grenzüberschreitungen und Untergangsstimm(ung)en im letzten Jahrhundert des römischen Imperiums
Der Perserkrieg unter Anastasios (502–506 n.Chr.) als Endzeitereignis
Opening the Gates of the North in 627: War, Anti-Byzantine Sentiment and Apocalyptic Expectancy in the Near East Prior to the Arab Invasion
II. Unbekannte Völker / Unknown Peoples
Travelling towards the peoples of the Endtime: C de Bridia as religious re-interpretation of Carpini
Die Völker der Endzeit im französischen Livre de Sidrac (13. Jh.)
Gogs und Magogs ‚natürliche Milde‘? Die Mongolen als Endzeitvölker im Wandel von Wissen und Wünschen
III. Jüdische Völker der Endzeit / Jewish Peoples of the Apocalypse
Jewish Tribes and Women in the Genesis and Battle of the Dajjāl: Nuʿayim ibn Ḥammād
al-Khuzāʿī al-Marwzī’s Kitāb al-Fitan
Jews in Armenian Apocalyptic Traditions of the 12th century: a Fictional Community or New Encounters?
Back to the Future: The Ten Tribes and Messianic Hopes in Jewish Society during the Early Modern Age
IV. Muslimische Perspektiven / Muslim Perspectives
Al-Andalus and the Andalusis in the Islamic Apocalyptic Tradition
The Image of the Turk in Classical and Modern Muslim Apocalyptic Literature
V. Protestantische Lesarten / Protestant Variants
Gog and Magog: Using Concepts of Apocalyptic Enemies in the Hussite era
The Wirsberger Brothers: Contesting Spiritual Authority through Prophecy
Nova Israhelis republica. Das Täuferreich von Münster 1534/35 als wahres Israel
Englands Heil und die Gottesfeinde Gog und Magog. Die bedrohte politische Identität Englands als ,protestant nation‘ (1588–1640)
VI. Nicht-apokalyptische Völker der Endzeit / Non-Apocalyptic Peoples of the Apocalypse
Apocalyptic Outsiders and their Uses in the Early Medieval West
Christian Moral Decline: A New Context for the Sibylla Tiburtina (Ms Escorial &.I.3)
The Apocalyptic Cycle of the Romanesque Murals in the Narthex of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe (Vienne): Do They Illustrate Political Ideas of the Gregorian Reform?
Index
