Julius Africanus (3rd cent.) has been called the a oeFather of
Christian Chronographya a " the exact calculation of dates and ages
(such as the date of the Incarnation, and indirectly also of the
end of the world). At the same time, however, he also presents the
beginnings of a Christian universal history (Universal Chronicle),
a genre which decisively influenced the historical thinking of both
Orient and Occident over hundreds of years. The present studies
open up this literaturea " some of which is virtually inaccessiblea
" and make significant contributions to research into Latin, Greek
and Oriental representations of the genre of universal chronicle.
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