Eschatology in Antiquity

Hilary Marlow is Fellow, Director of Studies and Tutor at Girton College, Cambridge, UK, and teaches Hebrew Bible in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK. Her research interests include nature in the Hebrew Bible, ecology and the Bible and prophetic texts of the Hebrew Bible. She is author of Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics (2009) and numerous articles and essays. Karla Pollmann is Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bristol, UK, and Professor of Classics and Theology. She is also an honorary member of the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Green College, UBC, Vancouver, Canada. Her research interests span Classical and Late Antique literature and culture, and their reception. In 2020, she was awarded a Humboldt Research Prize in recognition of her internationally leading work. Major publications include The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, 3 vols (2013) as Editor-in-Chief, and The Baptized Muse (2017). Helen Van Noorden is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Wrigley Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, UK, and in 2020–2022 is Associate Professor and AIAS-COFUND Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark. She is the author of Playing Hesiod: the ‘Myth of the Races’ in Classical Antiquity (2015). Her current focus is a monograph study and translation of Books 3–5 of the Sibylline Oracles.

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction, Helen Van Noorden, Hilary Marlow and Karla Pollmann; Section 1: Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible; 1 Beyond the Future: Mesopotamian Perceptions of the Very End, Dina Katz; 2 Individual and Universal Eschatology in Zoroastrianism, Leon Goldman; 3 Egyptian Oracles and the Afterlife, Alexandre Loktionov; 4 Eschatology in the Book of Isaiah: Multiple Perspectives on the Promised Times, Uta Schmidt; 5 "As I Looked": Visionary Experiences and Conceptions of Place in the Book of Ezekiel, Hilary Marlow; 6 Daniel and Daniel Apocalyptica, Lester L. Grabbe; Section 2: Greek World; 7 Beyond the Stream of the Ocean: Hades, the Aethiopians and the Homeric eschata, George A. Gazis; 8 ‘Orphic’ Eschatologies? Varying Visions of the Afterlife in Greek Thought, Radcliffe Edmonds; 9 Eschatological Visions in Pindar and Empedocles, Chiara R. Ciampa; 10 Plato’s Myths, the Soul and its Intra-cosmic Future, Alex Long; 11 Contemplating the End of Roman Power: Polybius' Histories in Context, Nicolas Wiater; Section 3: Jewish Texts of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods; 12 Protology and Eschatology in the Enochic Traditions, Gabriele Boccaccini; 13 Dreams and Visions of Eschatological Trees in The Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36), Frances Flannery; 14 Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The End as Counter-Cultural Discourse on Society and Creation, Albert Hogeterp; 15 Returning from the Diaspora of the Soul: Eschatology in Philo of Alexandria, Sami Yli-Karjanmaa; 16 End Times and Ending Times in 4 Ezra, Carla Sulzbach; 17 Eschatology in the Early Jewish Pseudepigrapha and the Early Christian Apocrypha, Lorenzo DiTommaso; Section 4: Etruscan and Roman Worlds; 18 Etruscan eschata, L. Bouke van der Meer; 19 Hope and Empire in Ciceronian Eschatology, Jed W. Atkins; 20 Lucretius ‘On the Nature of Things’: Eschatology in an Age of Anxiety, Alessandro Schiesaro; 21 Eschatological Temporalities in Vergil’s Elysium, Giovanna Laterza; 22 The End is the Beginning is the End: Apocalyptic Beginnings in Augustan Poetry, Elena Giusti; 23 Eschatology in Seneca: The Senses of an Ending, Gareth Williams; 24 Enduring Death and Remembering the Apocalypse: Identity, Timespace, and Lucanian Paradoxes, Katharine M. Earnshaw; 25 Popular Eschatological Visions in the Roman Empire, Jerry Toner; 26 Four Eschatological Emperors: Augustus, Nero, Vespasian and Hadrian, Christopher Star; Section 5: New Testament texts; 27 The End of the Temple or the End of the World? 1st Century Eschatology in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew, Sarah Underwood Dixon; 28 The End—What and When? Eschatology in Luke-Acts, Steve Walton; 29 Eschatology in the Gospel of John and the Johannine Epistles, Jörg Frey; 30 Eschatology—Pauline and Catholic Epistles, Eve-Marie Becker; 31 The Book of Revelation: The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ, Christopher Rowland; Section 6: Late Antiquity and Byzantine World; 32 Eschatology in Origen from Alexandria, Anders-Christian Jacobsen; 33 Eschatology in Early Christian Poetry, Nikolaus Klassen; 34 The Eschatological Thought of Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, Sergey Trostyanskiy; 35 Knowing One’s Place: Eschatological Thought in Augustine, Karla Pollmann; 36 Eschatological Motifs and Patterns of Thought in Christian Hagiography, Peter Gemeinhardt; 37 Syriac Eschatology in Antiquity, Witold Witakowski; 38 Eschatology and Anti-Jewish Polemic: Examples from the Armenian Tradition, Zaroui Pogossian; 39 Early Muslim Apocalypses and their Origins, David Cook; 40 Christian Eschatology in Late Antique/Byzantine Egypt, David Frankfurter; 41 Symbols, Icons, Liturgy: Eschatology in Early Christian Art, Vladimir Cvetkovic; 42 Eschatology in the Apocalyptic Revival in Judaism (6th-9th centuries CE) in its Historical Context, Philip Alexander; Index of names and subjects