Reseña del libro "The Man Of Lawlessness and The Deceiving Messiah (en Inglés)"
The Man of Lawlessness and the Deceiving Messiah: The Antichrist, Armilus, and al-Masīḥ al-Dajjāl in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic TraditionThree of the world's great faiths share one haunting expectation: that before the end of the age, a deceiver will arise wearing the likeness of the redeemer. Christianity calls him the Antichrist, the "man of lawlessness" who takes his seat in the temple of God. Judaism remembers Gog of the land of Magog and Armilus, the tyrant born in Rome who slays the Messiah son of Joseph. Islam warns of al-Masīḥ al-Dajjāl, the one-eyed false messiah whom Jesus son of Mary will destroy at the gate of Lydda.This book is the first to set these traditions side by side and ask of each the same five questions. What is the final adversary? Who is he? When will he appear? What will he do during his brief dominion? And how, and by whom, will he be destroyed?The answers span three thousand years of scripture and interpretation. The book begins with the Book of Daniel and the Books of Enoch, and with the Dead Sea Scrolls, whose "Man of the Lie" anticipates the Dajjāl's very name. It traces the Antichrist through the New Testament, the Church Fathers, Byzantine apocalypses, and the Old Believers of Russia. It follows the Jewish tradition through the Talmud, the Zohar, the catastrophe of Sabbatai Ṣevi, and the messianic hopes of modern Israel. On the Islamic side it moves from the Qurʾān and the canonical ḥadīth to the reformers, mystics, and militants of the modern world.