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Kereskényi Sándor Fashioning of the Historical Subject Israel as a Narrative Topic of the Hungarian National Identity Abstract This study has attempted to draw attention to one of the most important patterns of thought in the 16-17th century, which has contributed to that period’s ideology. It has covered three sermons and three histories which have a similar narrative based upon shared opinions. The writers in the 16-17th century looked at their history from 1526 as the beginning of the universal decline of rules. There was an agreed understanding about the fluency of political changes and military invasions and about previous periods drawn from biblical typologies: earlier events were treated as a golden age, and the contemporary period as a time of God’s judgment. The conception of „fatales periodi”, catalogue of sins, and image of the decline of „Hungarian Israel” are the pattem of this thought. 114
