Contents
Abbreviations.....................................................................................................................................vi
Acknowledgments............................vii
The Vulgate Text of 2 Thessalonians..............................................................................................x
Chapter
1.	Introduction: Constructing Antichrist.............................................1
The Context and the Sense of Apocalyptic Thought
2 Thessalonians: Pauline 'Antichristology'
After the Apostle: The Shape of the 2 Thessalonians Tradition
2.	The Man of Sin:Apocalyptic Realism in the Early Church.........32
Paul and Antichrist in the Early Fathers: The Pre-History of Commentary
The Ambrose Tradition (1): Ambrosiaster
The Ambrose Tradition (2): Theodore of Mopsuestia
The Jerome Tradition (1): Pelagius
The Jerome Tradition (2): Jerome and the Persistence of Apocalyptic 
Realism
Summary: The Building Blocks of Apocalyptic Realist Exegesis
3. 	Members of the Enemy Body: The Spiritual Exegesis of 2 
Thessalonians.........................................................................................................95
Tyconius
Augustine of Hippo
Excursus--Gregory the Great: The Silent Presence
 4.	Antichrist and His Body, 500-1000 ..................................................................135
Pseudo-Primasius: Pelagius Corrected
Antichrist and his body: The New Synthesis in Carolingian 
Biblical Scholarship
Rabanus Maurus: Antichrist as the Twofold Denial of Christ
Florus of Lyons: A 'Summa' of Augustinian Antichristology
Sedulius Scotus: 'Another Nero, of the Same Title'
Haimo of Auxerre: The Providential Delay of Antichrist
The Ambiguity of the End or the End of Ambiguity? Antichrist in the 
Tenth Century
5.	Seeing the Adversary Afresh:
Paul and Antichrist in Early Scholastic Exegesis, 1000-1160 ..................207
Lanfranc of Bec: The Early Glossed Text
Bruno the Carthusian
The Glossa Ordinaria on Paul: Anselm of Laon
From Glossa Ordinaria to Glossa Magnatura: Peter Lombard
 6.	Conclusion.........................................................................................................278
The Early Medieval Synthesis: Summarizing the 
Chronological Argument
The Persistence of Apocalypticism: Implications for the History of 
Theology
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................291




Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Antichrist History of doctrines, Bible,  N, T,  Thessalonians, 2nd Commentaries History