Bousset. The Antichrist legend

Today's free book is The Antichrist Legend: A Chapter in Christian and Jewish Folklore by Wilhelm Bousset (1896). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).


Table of Contents

CHAPTER I.
Introduction—Methods of Interpretation—Relations to the Babylonian Dragon Myth

CHAPTER II.
Statement of the Problem 

CHAPTER III.
Pseudo-Ephrem: A Latin Homily on the End of the World—S. Ephrem: A Greek Homily on the Antichrist, and other Prophetic Writings—pseudo-Hippolytus: on the end of the world —The Pseudo-Johannine Apocalypse—S. Cyril of Jerusalem : Fifteenth Catechesis—Philip the Solitary: Dioptra—Pseudo-Chrysostom

CHAPTER IV.
Two Medieval Sibylline Documents (Bede and Usinger)—Adso on the Antichrist — Pseudo-Methodius—S. Ephrem: Syriac Homily on the Antichrist—Review of the Group of Ephremite Writings—The Common Source of Adso's Anti-christ and of Bede's Sibyl—S. Jerome's Apocalyptic Material 

CHAPTER V.
The Greek and Armenian Apocalypses of Daniel— The Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Apocalypses of Peter—The Syriac Apocalypse of Ezra

CHAPTER VI.
Commodian's Carmen Apologeticum — Lactantius: Institutiones Divine, VII. x.—Relations of Commodian to the Work of Hippolytus on the Antichrist—S. Martin of Tours : Eschatological Testament—Victorinus: Commentary on Revelation—The Parts of the Book of Clement, and of the Ascensio Jesalae referring to the Last Things ; Relations to 4 Ezra

CHAPTER VII.
The Apocalypse of Zephaniah—Survey of other Patristic Writings bearing on the Antichrist Legend 

CHAPTER VIII.
Jewish Sources—The Sibylline Literature—The Fourth Book of Ezra and the Book of Baruch—The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs—Later Jewish Sources—The Mysteries of Simon —Midrash va-Yosha—The Signs of the Messiah —The Book of Zorobabel—The Persian History of Daniel—Non-Christian and Non-Jewish Sources—The Elder Edda—The Bahman-Yast Parsee Apocalypse—The Arab Tradition of the Antichrist 

PART II.
HISTORY OF THE ANTICHRIST LEGEND.

CHAPTER IX.
Signs and Forewarnings—The Fall of the Roman Empire before the End—Origin of the Anti-christ

CHAPTER X.
The Jewish Origin of the Antichrist—His Name—The Devil and Antichrist—Belial—The Anti-christ figured as a Monster 

CHAPTER XL
First Victories of Antichrist—Seats himself in the Temple—Antichrist the Pseudo-Messiah of the Jews—His Birth in the Tribe of Dan 

CHAPTER XII.
The Wonders of the Antichrist—A Retrospective Glance—The Antichrist's Ministers 

CHAPTER XIII.
Antichrist Rulee of the World—Drought and Famine—The Mark of Antichrist

CHAPTER XIV.
Enoch and Elias—The Flight of the Faithful 

CHAPTER XV.
The Shortening of the Days—The Last Stress— The Deliverance—The Doom of the Antichrist 

CHAPTER XVI.
The Sign of the Son of Man—The Time of His Advent—The Destruction of the World by Fire —The Four Winds—The Sounding of the Trump —The Last Judgment

An Old Armenian Form of the Antichrist Saga 

Appendix. Greek and Latin Texts