Pablo Ubierna

National Scientific and Technical Research Council, History, Faculty Member

Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (UNIPE), Humanidades y Arte, Faculty Member

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Scholar in the field of Byzantine Studies
Address: Department of Humanities and Arts
National Pedagogical University (UNIPE)
Piedras 1080
C1070AAV-Buenos Aires
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BYZANTINE GREEK APOCALYPSES AND THE WEST: A CASE STUDY

Apocalypticism and Eschatology in Late Antiquity: Encounters in the Abrahamic Religions, 6th-8th Centuries, 2017

In his 1972 dissertation on Byzantine imperial eschatology Gerhard Podskalsky 1 credited Julius W... more In his 1972 dissertation on Byzantine imperial eschatology Gerhard Podskalsky 1 credited Julius Welhausen with having called his attention to the place of the Book of Daniel in the history of the Humanities. I want to acknowledge now Gerhard Podskalsky because his own work, along with those of Paul Alexander and Agostino Pertusi, lies at the heart of our contemporary understanding of Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition. 2 More than thirty years ago McGinn established the core texts for understanding late antique, medieval and early modern 'Visions of the End' 3. Thus, I will focus my attention on two of those texts: The Greek Pseudo-Methodius and Pseudo Ephrem's Sermo de Fine Mundi and their reception in the West. The end of the seventh century and the eighth were periods when the main body of Christian polemics was focused more against Jews (or Judaizers heretics) than against Muslims. 4 From the Jewish side, the anti-Christian polemic is mostly centred on the midrashim and the apocalyptic literature. 5 This is one of the major problems of seventh-century religious history, given that the existence of those texts could represent

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