About Matthew S. Dentice

Matthew S. Dentice is an author, poet, and academic based in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he is studying for a Ph.D. in medieval literature. He is the recipient of the Medieval Association of the Pacific’s Founders’ Prize in 2019 and the Brooks-Hudgins Essay Award in 2020 and 2022. He presents his findings regularly at academic conferences and his work has been featured in a number of internet outlets and in several print anthologies

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The Return of David

By now, we have an understanding of the basic contours of... read more

Messianism Spiritualized: The Book of Jeremiah

We find Isaiah’s template repeated throughout the Jewish scriptures. Jeremiah may be... read more

Early Messianism in the Book of Isaiah

Now that we have located the possible origin of the messianic idea... read more

Zoroastrianism Coda: The Empire of Time

I had thought, after the previous entry, to leave Zoroastrianism behind, but... read more

Zoroastrianism: The First Messianic Faith

To properly understand Christianity as an eschatological faith, it behooves us to... read more

The Eschatological Basis of Christianity

All of the world’s major religions are, to an extent, eschatological. Because... read more

"An Emperor Among Us?": Emperor Norton's Religious Utopianism

Well, this is not how I expected to start off the first... read more

A Source of Hope in Apocalyptic Times

The end of the world, it seems, is always upon us. Constantly,... read more

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