Paradise regained? Utopias of deliverance in seventhcentury apocalyptic discourse

Title: Paradise regained? Utopias of deliverance in seventhcentury apocalyptic discourse
Creator: Strickler, Ryan W.
Relation: Memories of Utopia: The Revision of Histories and Landscapes in Late Antiquity p. 171-188
Relation: Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429448508
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2020
Description: In keeping with the theme of this volume, this chapter examines the relevance of utopias and dystopias as they appear in seventh-century apocalyptic discourse. Of interest is the use of these categories by authors to transform the political and religious identities of the communities under Roman cultural hegemony, first during the Persian invasions followed by the Muslim invasions. The specification of cultural hegemony is important, as I include not only communities under direct Roman political control, including Jews and Greek-speaking Chalcedonian Christians, but also Syriac-speaking Christians, on the imperial periphery and outside of Roman political domination, who nevertheless understood Rome to be the centre of God’s kingdom on earth.
Subject: utopias; dystopias; paradise; seventh-century apocalyptic discourse
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1441700
Identifier: uon:41504
Identifier: ISBN:9781138328679
Language: eng

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