Christopher Bonura’s new monograph, A Prophecy of Empire, offers a comprehensive study of the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius within its Syriac literary, theological, and political context. On this foundation, Bonura traces the trajectory of its reception from its original Mesopotamian milieu and its gradual transmission and translation westward.The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius is on the borderline of PaleoJudaica's period of interest, but it's high time it got a mention here.
This "Methodius" is not to be confused with Methodius the brother of Cyril. These two brothers invented the Glagolitic alphabet
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