Abstract
This chapter outlines two stages in the formation of a Christian eschatological tradition in Egypt: first, the diverse pre-fourth-century influences of Jewish apocalyptic tour traditions as well as native Egyptian traditions of the “Chaos-narrative”; second, new compositions in late antique (third- to seventh-century) Egypt concerning (a) individual judgement and the denizens of hell, and (b) signs of eschatological decline, deception and crisis in the land of Egypt. The manuscripts and fragments discussed show ongoing combinations of (and expansions upon) Egyptian and Jewish apocalyptic traditions in the service of formulating an Egyptian Christian eschatology. The main texts addressed include the Apocalypses of Peter and of Paul, the Apocalypse of Elijah, the Apocalypse of Zephaniah and the Testaments of Abraham and of Isaac.
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