From the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, numerous apocalyptical and messianic movements came to the fore across Eurasia and North Africa. The aim of the conference is to explore the extent to which we can write a connected history of messianism and apocalypticism in the major monotheistic religions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It seeks to contribute to an explanation of the simultaneous strength of Latter-Days expectations in Christianity, Judaism and Islam in this period.
Organised in cooperation with the Franckesche Stiftungen Financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Research programme of the Land of Sachsen-Anhalt „Enlightenment - Religion - Knowledge“
Expectations of the Latter Days in Islam, Judaism and Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Conference in Halle (Saale) from 5th to 7th July 2018
Thursday, 05.07.2018 9.00 Introduction
9.50
The “Moor of Granada”: Islamic Prophecies, Religious Polemics and Sebastianism Gerard Wiegers and Mònica Colominas Aparicio
10.40
Coffee break
11.00
Providential modernity John J. Martin
11.10
Coffee break
The ‘Nine and a Half Tribes’ and the Conquest of Iberia: Morisco, Converso, and Christian Prophecies of the End Times Marya Green-Mercado
11.30
A Messiah from the Left Side: Jewish Messianism in a Time of Political and Religious Change Moti Benmelech
12.20 13.40
9.30
10.20
The Great Conjunction: Why the Turn of the Sixteenth Century Became a Messianic Moment for Jews, Christians and Muslims Matt Goldish
11.50
How to become a terrorist: Ivan the Terrible and the Age of Apocalypticism Damien Tricoire
Lunch
12.40
Lunch
Messianic Dreams in Early Sixteenth-Century Portugal: A “Bridge” to the Empire José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim
14.00
The role of the children of Moses in the Messianic Expectations of the Seventeenth Century Jonna-Margarethe Mäder
14.50
Carvajal and the Franciscans. Jewish-Christian Eschatological Expectations in a New World Setting Sina Rauschenbach
Apocalypticism and the qualities of transfer in seventeenthcentury Greek Orthodoxy Nikolas Pissis
15.20
Coffee break
15.40
Coffee break
15.40
Messianic Hopes in 17th-Century Kabbalah and their Adaptations in Christian Circles Elke Morlok
16.00
The Antichrist as opponent of the Parlamentarians in the English Civil War. Why we should take the biblical rhetoric seriously Andreas Pečar
16.50
Portent of the Last Hour: Ibn Isa’s Rumuz al-Kunuz and the Ottoman Apocalyptic imagination in the Early Modern Times Cengiz Sisman
17.20
Coffee break
17.40
Esau and the Apocalypse in Early Modern Ottoman Political Discourse Evrim Binbaş
14.30
16.30
Friday, 06.07.2018 9.00
From the Byzantine “Hidden King” to El Moro Alfatimi: Messianism Across the Mediterranean Marios Hatzopoulos
Connected Prophecies and the Links Among Menasseh Ben Israel, Portuguese and English Millenarians in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic Luís Filipe Silvério Lima
Saturday, 07.07.2018 10.00 – 12.00
Guided tour through the Francke Foundations
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