Christopher J. Bonura is Assistant Professor of History at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland.

• Contents AcknowledgmentsNote to the ReaderAbbreviations Introduction. A Syriac Apocalyptic Tract on Political Theology PART ONE. CONTEXT1. Plague, Taxation, and Conversion to Islam: Pseudo-Methodius’s Date and Historical Context 2. Far from Byzantium: The Author and the Literary Context of Pseudo-Methodius 3. The Prophecies of Daniel and Syriac Eschatology: The Context of Pseudo-Methodius’s Political Theology PART TWO. CONTENT4. The Historical Part: A History of God’s Kingship and Daniel’s Four Kingdoms 5. The Prophetic Part: The King of the Greeks, the Surrender of Power, and the End of the World PART THREE. RECEPTION6. From Mesopotamia to Constantinople: The Syriac and Greek Reception of Pseudo-Methodius’s Political Eschatology 7. From Byzantium to the Orthodox Kingdoms: Pseudo-Methodius’s Political Eschatology in the Non-Greek East 8. From Merovingian Francia to Early Modern Empire: Pseudo-Methodius’s Political Eschatology in the Latin West Conclusion. Pseudo-Methodius: The Unlikely Prophet of Christian Empire Appendix A. Translation of the Syriac Pseudo-MethodiusAppendix B. Early Interpolations in the Greek Pseudo-MethodiusReferencesIndex