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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2020
      April 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108868921
      9781108491495
      9781108798358
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108868921
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 242 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.37kg, 246 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Religion, Church History
      Series:
      Classics after Antiquity
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Religion, Church History
    Series:
    Classics after Antiquity
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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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