?Individual Sins and Collective Punishments in Late Antique Eastern Christian Apocalypses?

PABLO UBIERNA

Mainz

Congreso; The Road to Hell: Sins and their after-life Punishments in the Mediterranean/ Der Weg zur Hölle: Sünden und ihre Bestrafung nach dem Tod im Mittelmeerraum; 2013

Johannes Gutemberg University

One of the main goals of this paper is to comment on the eschatological notion of ?end? as found in a Syriac apocalyptic text of the seventh century, the Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel (or Pseudo-Daniel), recently edited by Matthias Henze and the possible links with the canonical tradition related to the Book of Daniel in the Syriac Bible and to present its own specificity due to the eschatological tone that relates the text with the classical authors of the fourth century like Aphraat. This eschatological tone marks a distance with other Syriac texts of the seventh century with a more political approach.