Contents
 
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Abbreviations
 
Introduction. A Syriac Apocalyptic Tract on Political Theology
 
PART ONE. CONTEXT
1. Plague, Taxation, and Conversion to Islam: Pseudo-Methodius’s Date and Historical Context
 
2. Far from Byzantium: The Author and the Literary Context of Pseudo-Methodius
 
3. The Prophecies of Daniel and Syriac Eschatology: The Context of Pseudo-Methodius’s Political Theology
 
PART TWO. CONTENT
4. The Historical Part: A History of God’s Kingship and Daniel’s Four Kingdoms
 
5. The Prophetic Part: The King of the Greeks, the Surrender of Power, and the End of the World
 
PART THREE. RECEPTION
6. From Mesopotamia to Constantinople: The Syriac and Greek Reception of Pseudo-Methodius’s Political Eschatology
 
7. From Byzantium to the Orthodox Kingdoms: Pseudo-Methodius’s Political Eschatology in the Non-Greek East
 
8. From Merovingian Francia to Early Modern Empire: Pseudo-Methodius’s Political Eschatology in the Latin West
 
Conclusion. Pseudo-Methodius: The Unlikely Prophet of Christian Empire
 
Appendix A. Translation of the Syriac Pseudo-Methodius
Appendix B. Early Interpolations in the Greek Pseudo-Methodius
References
Index