The Nero-Antichrist: founding and fashioning a paradigm
"It has traditionally been assumed that biblical writers considered Nero to be the Antichrist.. This book refutes that view. Beginning by challenging the assumption that literary representations of Nero as tyrant would have been easily recognisable to those in the eastern Roman empire, where mo...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cambridge University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Classics after antiquity
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Nero, Römisches Reich, Kaiser 37-68
/ Antichrist
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBA Dogmatics NBQ Eschatology |
| Further subjects: | B
Nero Emperor of Rome (37-68)
B Church History Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Sources B Antichrist B Church History Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Study and teaching History B Bible. New Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc History B Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D Sources |
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| Summary: | "It has traditionally been assumed that biblical writers considered Nero to be the Antichrist.. This book refutes that view. Beginning by challenging the assumption that literary representations of Nero as tyrant would have been easily recognisable to those in the eastern Roman empire, where most Christian populations were located, Shushma Malik then deconstructs the associations often identified by scholars between Nero and the Antichrist in the New Testament. Instead, she demonstrates that the Nero-Antichrist paradigm was a product of late antiquity. Using now firmly established traits and themes from classical historiography, late-antique Christians used Nero as a means with which to explore and communicate the nature of the Antichrist. This proved successful, and the paradigm was revived in the nineteenth century in the works of philosophers, theologians, and novelists to inform debates about the era's fin-de-siècle anxieties and religious controversies"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1108491499 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781108868921 |