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The Nero-Antichrist
Shushma Malik
其他書名
Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm
出版Cambridge University Press, 2020-04-16
主題Bibles / GeneralHistory / Ancient / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralReligion / Christian Theology / EschatologyReligion / Christianity / GeneralReligion / Christian Church / History
ISBN11084914999781108491495
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hp7bDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.