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Joseph Jacobs
Named coauthor of the Jewish Encyclopedia article Messiah.
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Joseph Pomeroy
Clergyman named in Southcott’s reported marriage communication.
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Joseph Smith
Speaker of the rainbow discourse and author or speaker of other recorded predictions in this collection.
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Joseph Wolff
Missionary of Jewish birth whose travel journal records his expectation of Christ’s coming in 1847.
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José Argüelles
American artist and writer, author of The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology (1987).
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Justin Martyr
Presents a reading of the thousand-year reign in Dialogue with Trypho.
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Jñāneśvar
Author of the Marathi Bhagavadgītā commentary Jñāneśvarī.
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Karl F. Klein
Member of the Brooklyn Bethel staff from 1925 whose life story appeared in The Watchtower in 1984.
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Krishna
Figure addressed as Kaṇhe Vāsudeve in this Jain narrative, which predicts his eventual rebirth as Amame.
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Kumārajīva
Traditional attribution for the Chinese translation of Taishō 454.
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Kāshināth Trimbak Telang
Translator whose edition includes the displayed note on divine birth in the Bhagavadgītā.
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L. D. Barnett
Translator and annotator of the 1907 English Antagaḍa-dasāo.
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Lactantius
Author of the Divine Institutes, whose seventh book discusses the end and restoration.
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Lowell Cook
English translator for the 84000 translation team.
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Makki ibn Abi Talib
Author of Al-Hidaya ila bulugh al-nihaya. The selected Arabic commentary discusses Qur’an 43:61.
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Manmatha Nath Dutt
English translator of Sanskrit works, credited as M.N.Dutt in this historical edition.
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Manushchihr
Author of the Zoroastrian question-and-answer work Dadestan-i Denig.
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Max Arthur Macauliffe
Historical writer and translator whose preface reports Sikh predictions.
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Maḥmúd of Basakhwán
Author whose writings, as Badauni reports, foretold that a person would abolish lies in the year 990.
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Menasseh ben Israel
Author of The Hope of Israel; the 1652 English text is preserved here in a 1901 reprint.
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Michael Baxter
Prophecy writer, described in 1918 as founder of the Christian Herald; author of Coming Wonders and Forty Prophetic Wonders.
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Miqdad al-Fadil al-Hilli
Commentator on al-Hilli’s theological treatise; the selected commentary quotes reports about the successors and explains the hidden Imam.
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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Author of The Will and other catalogued writings discussing religious signs and claims.
Historical event
Mongol invasion of Japan, 1274
1274
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin identifies this event as fulfillment of Nichiren’s warning about rebellion and foreign invasion.