Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.25.6, pp. 4752-4794
 
Iranian Prophetology and the Birth of the Messiah: the Apocalypse of Adam
by Andrew J. Welburn, London

Contents

I. The Place of the 'Apocalypse' in the Gnostic Library

4752

II. Iranian Prophetology

4756

1. The Saosyants

4756

2. Cycles and kesvars

4758

3. Zarathustra

4760

III. The Twelve Incarnations

4764

1. Iranian Legends

4764

2. Further Proposals

4777

IV. The Birth of the Messiah

4781

1. The Thirteenth Kingdom

4781

2. Synthesis: the Kingless Race

4789
Bibliography 4791
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