Title The Nero-Antichrist : founding and fashioning a paradigm / Shushma Malik

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 228 pages) Series Classics after antiquity Classics after antiquity. Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Neronian Myths -- Reception Studies and the Bible -- Chapter 2 Nero and the Bible -- Nero as Antichrist in Biblical Studies -- First-Century Perceptions of Nero -- Neronian Rome -- Nero in the Empire -- After Nero's Death: Damnatio Memoriae? -- After Nero's Death: The False Neros -- Is Nero the Biblical Antichrist? -- Daniel -- 1 and 2 John -- 2 Thessalonians and Mark's Gospel -- Revelation Chapter 3 The Invention of the Nero-Antichrist -- Nero as Arch-Persecutor and the Influence of Millennialism -- Rejecting Millennialism -- Nero as Arch-Destroyer in Pseudepigrapha -- The Sibylline Oracles -- The Ascension of Isaiah -- Educated Elites and Their Audiences -- Classical Historiography's Nero as the Anti-Paul -- Nero as Anti-Augustus -- Nero in Classical Literature -- Anti-Augustus and Antichrist -- Nero's Death and Late Antiquity -- Chapter 4 Reviving the Nero-Antichrist -- Ancient Rome and the Nineteenth Century -- Greece over Rome? -- Imagining Ancient Rome Roman Catholicism in an Atmosphere of Decline -- Ernest Renan -- Renan's Antichrist-Nero -- Renan's Catholicism -- Frederic William Farrar -- Farrar's Darkness and Dawn -- Farrar's Protestantism -- Farrar as Historical Novelist -- Farrar's Critics -- Farrar's Popular Legacy -- Oscar Wilde -- Wilde's Catholicism -- Wilde's Literary Nero -- Wilde's Epistolary Nero -- Chapter 5 Epilogue: The Legacy of Revival -- Sienkiewicz and His Predecessors -- The Novel's Nero -- Ustinov and His Successors -- Appendix A List of Early-Christian References to the Nero-Antichrist -- References -- Index Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2020) Subject Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68. SUBJECT Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68 fast Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013752 Bible. New Testament fast Subject Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Sources Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Study and teaching -- History Antichrist. Antichrist History -- Sources SUBJECT Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. -- Sources Subject Rome (Empire) Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019051899 ISBN 9781108868921 1108868924 9781108857918 1108857914

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