The Antichrist Legend

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The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. Introduction - Methods Of Interpretation - Relations To The Babylonian Dragon Myth. present work was originally undertaken with -L a view to the explantion and interpretation of some obscure passages in the Revelation of S. John. My inquiries were first turned in this direction by the remarks contained in Isolin's Comparative Study of Revelation with the Later Syriac Apocalypse attributed to Ezra. Then my attention was drawn to these remarkable literary problems by Bratke's work on the Arabo-Ethiopic Petrine Apocalypse. After reading a fellow-worker's treatise on the Apocalypse two years ago, it seemed to me highly probable that at least chap. xi. of the Johannine Apocalypse had its origin in an earlier tradition which might still be recovered. Corrodi's History of the Millennium for the first time brought under my notice the writings of S. Ephrem bearing on this subject. Then one branch after another of this astonishingly widespread literature was in due course brought to This work, however (Theol. Zeitschrift am der Schweiz, 1887), is known to me only by report. light, although I should have still undoubtedly overlooked some important documents but for the help repeatedly rendered to me by Professors Bonwetsch and W. Meyer. My thanks are also due to Dr. Achelis and to Dr. Rahlfs for the assistance kindly afforded by them on several points occurring in the course of my investigations. But even so I am. far from claiming any finality for these researches, many documents from which light might be derived being still inaccessible to students. However, I have at least reason to believe that nothing essential has been overlooked in connection with the current of tradition on the Antichrist saga in the early Church. I would, nevertheless, here point out that ...

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