Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition

"Paul Alexander had a fine eye for the tensions, the incoherences, the sense of fragility that lay beneath the confident surface of the Byzantine state. What he has written on Apocalyptic, therefore, is not merely a set of interesting studies dating and providing a setting for vaguely disreputable rumblings: it is a new view of Byzantium and its underworld." --Peter Brown

 

"This is a very important book, setting out Professor Alexander's final conclusions on a group of Apocalyptic texts that have never been completely analyzed in relation to all the others. . . . Every stage in what are often intricate discussions of complex material is argued with characteristic care, clarity, and precise scholarship." --Marjorie Reeves

About the author

Paul J. Alexander was Professor of History and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. The manuscript, left incomplete at his death in 1977, was compiled and edited by Dorothy deF. Abrahamse, Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach.

 

Product details

• Authors: Paul J. Alexander, Alexander Paul J.
• Assisted by: Dorothy deF. Abrahamse (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780520358928
• ISBN: 978-0-520-35892-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, HISTORY / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, Christianity;church history;early church history;history