An apocalyptic text responded to Muslim building on the Jewish Temple site

Evidence

Reinink (p. 185) concludes that “the hypothesis that the Apocalypse of ps.-Methodius was composed in reaction to ‘Abd al-Malik’s foundation of the Dome of the Rock on the site of the Jewish Temple is very attractive.” — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1503

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the earliest anti-Muslim polemic genealogy rooted in a specifically religious-territorial grievance over Jerusalem — a concrete origin-data point for the vault’s understanding of how Islam was cast as usurper of sacred space.