The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition

A Comparative Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27024-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 798 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1350 g

Reihe: Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha

The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition: A Comparative Perspective comprises a collection of essays on apocalyptic literature in the Armenian tradition. This collection is unprecedented in its subject and scope and employs a comparative approach that situates the Armenian apocalyptic tradition within a broader context. The topics in this volume include the role of apocalyptic literature and apocalypticism in the conversion of the Armenians to Christianity, apocalyptic ideology and holy war, the significance of the Book of Daniel in Armenian thought, the reception of the Apocalypse of Ps.-Methodius in Armenian, the role of apocalyptic literature in political ideologies, and the expression of apocalypticism in the visual arts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bardakjian, Kevork

La Porta, Sergio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Heilige & Traditionelle Texte, Mythologie, Vergleichende Mythologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Missionierung und Konvertierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors include: Z. Aleksidze, R. Bartal, G. Boccaccini, S.P. Cowe, L. DiTommaso, A. Hultgård, S. La Porta, C. Maranci, S. Merian, A. Miltenova, G. Muradyan, T. Pettipiece, P. Piovanelli, Z. Pogossian, S. Rapp, A.Y. Reed, J.-M. Rosenstiehl, J.R. Russell, S. Shoemaker, M.E. Stone, Y. Stoyanov, H. Tamrzyan, R.W. Thomson, A. Topchyan, T.M. van Lint, E. Vardanyan, and W. Witakowski

Über Autor(innen)

Kevork B. Bardakjian, D.Phil (1974), Oxford University, is Marie Manoogian Professor of Armenian Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His publications include A Reference Guide to Modern Armenian Literature, 1500–1920, with an introductory history (2000).

Sergio La Porta, Ph.D. (2001), Harvard University, is the Haig and Isabel Berberian Chair of Armenian Studies at California State University, Fresno. He has published several articles on Armenian cultural history, and a three-volume study of Armenian commentaries on Dionysius the Areopagite’s "Heavenly Hierarchy" (2008).