Messiah or Antichrist in the Translated Apocalypse (opens in new tab)

The Apocalypse of Abraham is a a text from Palestine in the late first century or early second century. It tells a tale about Abraham, who in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is the first person to worship the one true God. In this strange text, God sends a crystalline emissary to Abraham and shows the man a vision of the future end of the world. There were many such visions of the End of Days written in this period; the New Testament’s Book of Revelation is the best known today. The weirdest...