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The Cosmic Journey in the Book of Revelation - Apocalyptic Cosmology and the Experience of Story-Space (Hardcover)
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The Cosmic Journey in the Book of Revelation - Apocalyptic Cosmology and the Experience of Story-Space (Hardcover)
Series: The Library of New Testament Studies
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Joel Rothman considers the significance of cosmology in biblical
and extra-biblical texts, and the role of the cosmic journey in
many apocalyptic narratives. He posits that Revelation's narrative
likewise takes the hearer on a virtual journey, through a cosmic
story-space of great theological significance. While scholarship
commonly assumes a three-tiered cosmos in Revelation, Rothman
argues that Revelation's narrative operates in a four-tiered
cosmos, with the hyper-heaven sitting above the sky-heaven, earth,
and abyssal depths; a cosmic story-space that is recreated in the
imagination of the hearers. Beginning with a methodology of visual
narrative reading, Rothman then discusses the assumptions and
existing conceptions regarding heaven and earth. He stresses that
Revelation does not exhibit tension in its portrayal of heaven,
between heaven as a site of conflict and heaven as the realm in
which God truly reigns, but rather shows readers a sky-heaven
characterised by archetypal conflict between powerful sky-beings
and a hyper-heaven defined by full recognition of the Throne. In
journeying through the sky-structure and God-space, and by
analysing the four cosmic layers in operation, the distinct nature
of the two sky-spaces, cosmic change and the ideological import of
the cosmic structure, Rothman proves that the existence of the
hyper-heaven - in contradistinction with the limited lived-cosmos
of earth and sky-heaven - is a present guarantee of the final
cosmic transformation that creates a new space for human life
exclusive of imperial draconian elements.
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