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What are the antecedents of the “Antichrist” figure and its associated themes in Jewish literature prior to the New Testament? Lorein offers the texts and translations of all the relevant passages, together with a discussion of their meaning and significance. He concludes that the “Antichrist” theme arises in different currents within this literature, but has its sources in the Old...

Lietaert Peerbolte attempts to find the origin of the elements in the immediate Christian or Jewish (or even pagan) context, within the framework of Christian eschatology. He finds them in the Jewish eschatology of the second century BCE and later. The main theme is apparently the ‘climax of evil’, which the writers thought had arrived in their own days. Lietaert Peerbolte claims that this setting in their own time provides comfort, because it is the necessary step toward the eventual triumph of
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