Georgia
A mountain church that held the apocalyptic inheritance of late antiquity.
Georgia converted in the fourth century, within a generation of Armenia, and inherited the same stream of Jewish and Greek apocalyptic through Syriac and Greek channels. The Enochic and Adamic testament literature, and the Armenian Apocalypse of Peter, passed into Georgian letters as part of a shared Caucasian Christian inheritance.
The regional cosmology placed the gates of Alexander, holding Gog and Magog, in the Caucasus itself; when those nations broke out, the age would close. Georgian historiography, like the Armenian, binds the fate of the people to a larger divine schedule in which the mountains are the world's last border. The end, here as in Armenia, was received with the book and the monastery rather than built from a native frame.
The shared tradition is treated in Armenian and Georgian Eschatology, beside Christian Eschatology and the Gog and Magog the gates contain.
See also
- Armenian and Georgian EschatologyThe Christian Caucasus received Jewish and Greek apocalyptic early, made the Eno
- Christian EschatologyThe teaching that history moves toward the return of Christ, a resurrection of t
- Gog and MagogThe nameless northern nations of biblical and Islamic eschatology, confined behi
- ArmeniaThe first Christian kingdom became a mountain keep of apocalyptic literature, pr