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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...
found in the New Testament. This conclusion matches the aporia we found ourselves in after a first reading of the Epistles of John and which actually urged us to study the Fathers. The man of lawlessness in 2 Thess. 2:1–12 appears to be another description of the named ‘Antichrist’. There is no reason why they should be regarded as two different figures or themes. However, the Antichrist has to be differentiated from Belial. Here Bousset and Charles reason incorrectly, because they do not differentiate
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