2. INTRODUCTION: THE WITNESSES AND THE PERIOD

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1. Frontmatter I
2. 1. THE QUESTION OF THE ANTICHRIST MYTH 1
3. I. THE ANTICHRIST MYTH IN THE THIRD CENTURY CE
4. 2. INTRODUCTION: THE WITNESSES AND THE PERIOD 27
5. 3. USE OF SCRIPTURE TO ELUCIDATE THE MYTH 41
6. 4. SKETCHES OF THE ANTICHRIST FIGURE 49
7. 5. THE ACTIVITY OF THE ANTICHRIST FIGURE 77
8. II. ANTECEDENT TRADITIONS TO THE ANTICHRIST MYTH
9. 6. INTRODUCTION: THE SEARCH FOR ORIGINS 117
10. 7. DEMONIC POWERS IN EARLY JEWISH WRITINGS 123
11. 8. ANTIOCHUS IV IN JEWISH TRADITION 153
12. 9. ASPECTS OF HELLENISTIC JEWISH WRITINGS WITH PARALLELS TO THE LATER ANTICHRIST LITERATURE 169
13. III. THE EMERGING ANTICHRIST MYTH
14. 10. INTRODUCTION: CONVERGING STRANDS IN JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN LITERATURE PRIOR TO 175 CE 193
15. 11. THE ENDTYRANT TRADITIONS PRIOR TO 70 CE 199
16. 12. THE ENDTYRANT TRADITIONS AFTER 70 CE 257
17. 13. THE EARLIEST ANTICHRIST TRADITIONS 307
18. 14. CONCLUSION: THE ORIGINS OF THE ANTICHRIST MYTH 357
19. BIBLIOGRAPHY 367
20. INDEX 413