Syriac Apocalyptic and the Body Politic: from individual salvation to the Fate of the State. Notes on Seventh Century Texts

PABLO UBIERNA

Imago Temporis Medium Aevum

Universitat de Lleida

Lugar: Lerida; Año: 2012 vol. 4 p. 141 - 164

1888-3931

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 ofDaniel (or Pseudo-Daniel), recently edited by Matthias Henze and the possible links withthe canonical tradition related to the Book of Daniel in the Syriac Bible and to presentits own specificity due to the eschatological tone that relates the text with the classicalauthors of the fourth century like Aphraat. This eschatological tone marks a distancewith other Syriac texts of the seventh century with a more political approach.