The Nero-Antichrist : Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm Hardback
by Shushma (Roehampton University, London) Malik
Part of the Classics after Antiquity series
Hardback
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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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- Pages:242 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/04/2020
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- ISBN:9781108491495
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:242 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/04/2020
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- ISBN:9781108491495
