Julius Africanus und die christliche Weltchronistik (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2012)

Julius Africanus (3rd cent.) has been called the a oeFather of Christian Chronographya a " the exact calculation of dates and ages (such as the date of the Incarnation, and indirectly also of the end of the world). At the same time, however, he also presents the beginnings of a Christian universal history (Universal Chronicle), a genre which decisively influenced the historical thinking of both Orient and Occident over hundreds of years. The present studies open up this literaturea " some of which is virtually inaccessiblea " and make significant contributions to research into Latin, Greek and Oriental representations of the genre of universal chronicle.