The Antichrist Legend (Classic Reprint): A Chapter in Christian and Jewish Folklore (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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I cannot better introduce the present treatise than by a remark appended by Gutschmid to his critique of Zezschwitz' work On Roman Imperialism of German Nationality: "The whole of this apocalyptic literature, extending on the one hand from the Book of Daniel, or even from the Old Testament Prophets, and on the other from the Cymæan Sibyl, in an all but unbroken chain, down to the time of Capistrano and the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, has hitherto been strangely neglected by historians. Yet it would be difficult to mention any other manifestation of popular thought in which was at all to the same extent directly reflected the impression produced by historical events on contemporary generations, on their ideas, hopes, and fears." I may here add that in this work I have been unable to offer more than an indispensable preliminary essay on the subject to which Gutschmid draws attention.

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