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| Title: Rome, the 'Translatio Imperii' and the Early christian Interpretation of Daniel II and VII Secondary Title: RSLR Volume: 21 Pages: 181-218 Type: Journal Article Year: 1985 Abstract: "The theme of a succession of world-empires was well known in antiquity. Among Jews toward the end of the 1st century A.D., the Roman empire replaced the Greeks as the fourth realm. Until the late 2nd century A.D., Western historiography, employing the concept of the five world-empires, had always assessed the position of the Roman empire positively. In the early 3rd century A.D., Christian patristic writers began to identify the fourth empire of Daniel 2 and 7 as Rome, though their attitudes toward it varied according to the political circumstances". - D.J.H. Keywords: New Testament / Early Christianity |