Texts and commentaries

Armilus

Kaufmann Kohler; Louis Ginzberg

Compares variant Armilus narratives and distinguishes the Josephite and Davidic messiahs; cites a translation issue concerning Jerusalem versus Temple.

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Latter-day Saint — Temple Lot

Articles of Faith and Practice

Church of Christ (Temple Lot)

The Temple Lot church’s statement of faith, with its own scriptural references.

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The Temple Lot church expects a temple in Independence · commentary →

Asclepius / The Perfect Sermon

Attributed to Hermes Trismegistus; G. R. S. Mead, translator

Foresees abandonment of Egyptian worship, disorder, and divine restoration of the cosmos through purification. It offers renewed cosmic order.

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Astvat.ereta

Mary Boyce

Traces savior tradition and cites Iranian priest correspondence predicting arrival; reports1630withoutmanifestation, differing from1620inBoyce Apocalyptic entry.

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Attainment of the Unity of Nations and the Lesser Peace

Department of the Secretariat on behalf of the Universal House of Justice; enclosed Research Department memorandum

Responds after December 2000 by denying an authoritative deadline for Lesser Peace, distinguishing it from twentieth-century unity of nations, and affirming the latter promise fulfilled as consciousness of a common human family. Memorandum distinguishes synchronized processes from causal dependence on Mount Carmel construction.

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Augsburg Confession

Philipp Melanchthon and Lutheran confessors

Affirms resurrection and final judgment while rejecting finite punishment and a pre-resurrection worldly kingdom of the godly; polemical labels remain attributed.

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Aumism: Curch and Religion

V. Vishti (Christine Amory)

A movement leader describes a sequence beginning with the 1990 revelation: ten years of judgment, a century of transition, and a millennium of confirmation, alongside a temple-building condition.

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Avatar of the Age Meher Baba Manifesting

Bhau Kalchuri

Explains the Avatar's continuing work after physical death and a700–1400year interval between advents. Distinguishes later manifestation of that work from continued bodily presence.

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Ayadgar i Jamaspig

Mary Boyce

Explains incomplete Pahlavi witnesses, inaccurate complete Pazand transmission, and layered millennium prophecies; cautions against treating a composite as one dated prediction.

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Aysar al-tafasir li-kalam al-ali al-kabir

Abu Bakr al-Jazairi

Explains Jesus’ descent as a sign of nearness and connects the verse’s commands with monotheism and the promise of resurrection and recompense.

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Azali Babism

Denis M. MacEoin

Examines Subh-i-Azal's succession authority and competing claims to the Bayan's expected figure; historical conclusions are attributed to MacEoin.

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Babism i. The Babi Movement

Denis M. MacEoin

Distinguishes gate claims from later Imam/theophany claims and explains rival Shaykhi successions. Page contains apparent chronological typographical errors, so precise dates require corroboration.

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Babylon and Infidelity Foredoomed of God

Edward Irving

Edward Irving’s discourse on the prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse, written in 1825 and printed in this Philadelphia extract of 1828. It ends the 1260 years in 1792 and places the commencement of the blessed reign of Christ 75 years later, “in 43 years from this time (A. D. 1825).”

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Irving, 1825: the blessed reign of Christ 75 years after 1792, “in 43 years from this time” · commentary →

Babylonian Talmud, Avodah Zarah

Attributed rabbinic sayings and discussion; redaction authorship not established

The Babylonian Talmud tractate on dealings with idolatry. Its opening discussion of eras and calendars includes dates reckoned from the Temple’s destruction and from creation.

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Avodah Zarah 9b: the year after which no field is bought →

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin

Traditional attribution; historical authorship not established here · Multiple attributed rabbinic sayings and discussion; redaction authorship not established

The Talmud’s Sanhedrin tractate discusses a seven-year sequence of signs before the Messiah. Rav Yosef objects to the sequence and Abaye responds, preserving a debate about the expected signs.

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Sanhedrin 97a–b: six thousand years and dated ends →

The seven years before the Messiah →

Baha'u'llah's Prophetology: Archetypal Patterns in the Lives of the Founders of the World Religions

Moojan Momen

Develops a theory of prophetic return as recurring patterns of founders, companions and opponents, grounded in Iqan.

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Bahai-Christian Dialogue: Some Key Issues Considered

Francis J. Beckwith

Argues symbolic interpretation selects evidence circularly, insists the same Jesus returns bodily, and disputes a suffering/conquering two-messiah framework. Supplies an evangelical counter-reading of Bahai Christian fulfillment claims.

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Bahaullah and the New Era

J. E. Esslemont; later institutional revisers

Combines symbolic cosmic-sign exegesis with claims of literal geopolitical fulfillment. Corinne True's purported 1912 Armageddon prediction is explicitly sourced to September 1914 reporting, an essential timing limitation. America's role is described as partial.

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The 1948 printing: 1957 kept in the text; the Note on Revisions on 1957 and 1963 · commentary →

The revised New Era: Daniel’s 1,335 days refer to 1963 · commentary →

Esslemont’s 1957 calculation · commentary →

Bahman Yasht

Werner Sundermann

Explains Middle Persian, Pazand and Persian witnesses, differing metal-age sequences and uncertain 1800/1600 numeral.

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Banquet of the Ten Virgins

Methodius

Interprets tabernacles as resurrection in the seventh millennium and distinguishes present images from future realization. Polemical descriptions of Jews are the author's rhetoric, not endorsed descriptions.

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BapDada: Avyakt Murli, 16 December 2000

BapDada, as attributed by Brahma Kumaris

The discourse answers doubts after 1999 and at the end of 2000, denying that construction projects or plans guarantee a delay in world change. It ties that change to spiritual effort and separately gives six months of training instructions.

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BapDada: Avyakt Murli, 18 January 2010

BapDada, as attributed by Brahma Kumaris

Predicts sudden world destruction without advance announcement and urges constant spiritual readiness; distinguishes predicted transformation from an announced calendar deadline.

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BapDada: Avyakt Murli,18January1977

BapDada, institutional attribution by Brahma Kumaris

Addresses why destruction has not occurred, counsels followers how to answer criticism, relates delay to benefiting further souls, and rejects fixing a final date. Provides fuller context for Jayanti's 2013 quotation.

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Bartenura’s Commentary on the Mishnah

Obadiah of Bertinoro

Defines the world to come in this Mishnah as bodily resurrection rather than the present abode of disembodied souls. It connects denial of resurrection with exclusion from participation.

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