Paradise Regained? Utopias of Deliverance in Seventh-Century Apocalyptic Discourse

Paradise Regained? Utopias of Deliverance in Seventh-Century Apocalyptic DiscourseRoutledge Monographs in Classical StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/4GPPZ3AY/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Ryan W.StricklerParadise Regained? Utopias of Deliverance in Seventh-Century Apocalyptic Discoursehttp://syriaca.org/cbss/4GPPZ3AYhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/4GPPZ3AYhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/4GPPZ3AYBronwenNeilKostaSimicMemories of Utopia: The Revision of Histories and Landscapes in Late AntiquityLondonRoutledge2020171-188Routledge Monographs in Classical StudiesFor most of the seventh century, Byzantine subjects found themselves in difficult times. Both Jews and Christians found themselves under the control of their adversaries in such a way that challenged their ideological standing as God’s chosen people. This chapter argues that to cope with these circumstances, Jewish and Christian authors, exemplified here by George of Pisidia, the Jewish Sefer Zerubbabel, and the Syriac Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius, used apocalyptic discourse to create the hope of a future utopian deliverance by rhetorically rebuilding the landscape destroyed by their adversaries in and around Jerusalem through a cycle of dystopia, deliverance, and restoration. In doing so, they appealed to and transformed the memory of the biblical and classical past to place themselves into a larger narrative of divine deliverance. Strickler, Ryan W. “Paradise Regained? Utopias of Deliverance in Seventh-Century Apocalyptic Discourse.” In Memories of Utopia: The Revision of Histories and Landscapes in Late Antiquity, edited by Bronwen Neil and Kosta Simic, 171–88. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies. London: Routledge, 2020. Ryan W. Strickler, Paradise Regained? Utopias of Deliverance in Seventh-Century Apocalyptic Discourse, in Memories of Utopia: The Revision of Histories and Landscapes in Late Antiquity, ed. Bronwen Neil and Kosta Simic, Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies (London: Routledge, 2020), 171–88.Apocalypse of Pseudo-MethodiusVII CEVII-XVIII CEapocalypticismeschatology