Footnotes by Chapter
01. Rudolf of Fulda's Latin text on Thiota
1. Per idem tempus [847] mulier quaedam de Alamanniae partibus, nomine Thiota, pseudoprophetissa, Mogontiacum venit, quae Salomonis episcopi parrochiam suis vaticiniis non minime turbaverat. Nam certum consummationis saeculi diem, aliaque perplura Dei solius noticiae cognita, quasi divinitus sibi relevata, scire se fatebatur, et eodem anno ultimum diem mundo imminere praedicabat. Unde multi plebeii utriusque sexus timore perculsi, ad eam venientes munera illi ferebant, seque orationibus illius commendabant: et, quod gravius est, sacri ordinis viri doctrinas ecclesiasticas postponentes, illam quasi magistram coelitus destinatam sequebantur. Haec in praesentiam episcoporum apud sanctum Albanum deducta et diligenter de suis assertionibus requisita, presbyterum quendam sibi ea suggessisse, et se talia quaestus causa narrasse professa est. Quapropter synodali iudicio publicis caesa flagellis, ministerium praedicationis, quod inrationabiliter arripuit et sibi contra morem ecclesiasticum vindicare praesumpsit, cum dedecore amisit, suisque vaticiniis tandem confusa finem imposuit. Annales Fuldenses ad. an. 847; MGH SS I, p.365.
03. On 6000.
3. On the year 6000: and the discussion by Simu Shimahara, “Peut-on parler de millénarisme à l’´époque carolingienne?: l’apport de quelques sources exégétiques,” Temas Medievales. Dec. 2006, vol.14 [cited 24 August 2008], p. 99–138 [ 6 April 2010].
34. On planting trees when Messiah comes)
34. “Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai taught: ‘If you happen to be standing with a sapling in your hand and someone says to you, “Behold! The Messiah has arrived!” First plant the tree and then go out to welcome the Messiah.’” (from Avot de Rabi Natan B 31; The Fathers according to Rabbi Nathan, trans. Anthony J. Saldarini, Studies in Judaism in late antiquity, 11 (Leiden: Brill Archive, 1975), 182.
24. Ten Commandments Movement Uganda
24. For a contemporary example of a rural/tribal adoption of the Ten Commandments in a new religious movement in Africa, see the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God in Uganda, on which see Massimo Introvigne, “Tragedy in Uganda: The Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, a Post-Catholic Movement”; Emmanuel Katongole, “Kannungu and the Movement of the Ten Commandments of God in Uganda: A Challenge for Christian Social Imagination,” Logos: Aa Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 6 (2003): 108–43.
37. Rebuke to Akiva on Messiah's Coming
37. Comment to Akiva, Jerusalem Talmud, Taanit chapter 4:5, p. 68d.The passage makes clear the terrible impact of the Bar Kochba rebellion, including the massive slaughter. See Gerbern S. Oegema, The Anointed and His People: Messianic Expectations from the Maccabees to Bar Kochba, JPS Supplements (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), esp. 28–29 for a discussion of this text.
