Christian Salvation through Muslim Domination: Divine Punishment and Syriac Apocalyptic Expectation in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries

Christian Salvation through Muslim Domination: Divine Punishment and Syriac Apocalyptic Expectation in the Seventh and Eighth CenturiesMedieval EncountersSyriaca.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/XIJXNMDZ/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Cynthia JanVillagomezChristian Salvation through Muslim Domination: Divine Punishment and Syriac Apocalyptic Expectation in the Seventh and Eighth Centurieshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/XIJXNMDZhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/XIJXNMDZhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/XIJXNMDZMedieval Encounters4:31998203-218Syriac apocalyptic texts are among the most important literary responses to the rise and establishment of the Islamic state in the indigenous lands of Syriac-speaking Christians. The apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius and other Syriac apocalyptic sources are used to demonstrate the negative reactions of Christians to Muslim political authority. These reactions are discussed in relation to Syriac patterns of response to crisis in the pre-Islamic period which explained wide-spread, severe suffering in the physical world as a consequence of Christians' sins, but also a demonstration of God's chastizing love. Villagomez, Cynthia Jan. “Christian Salvation through Muslim Domination: Divine Punishment and Syriac Apocalyptic Expectation in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries.” Medieval Encounters 4:3 (1998): 203–18. Cynthia Jan Villagomez, Christian Salvation through Muslim Domination: Divine Punishment and Syriac Apocalyptic Expectation in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries, Medieval Encounters 4:3 (1998): 203–18.Apocalypse of Pseudo-MethodiusMuslim-Christian relationsVII CEVII-XVIII CEVIII CEapocalypticismeschatology