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Hearing at the Boundaries of Vision - Education Informing Cosmology in Revelation 9 (Hardcover, New)
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Hearing at the Boundaries of Vision - Education Informing Cosmology in Revelation 9 (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Library of New Testament Studies
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This is a creative study of how differing levels of educational
attainment may affect ancient hearer's interpretation of the
cosmological and visionary imagery of "Revelation 9". This study
considers how a significant variable, namely educational-level,
might affect an ancient hearer's interpretation of "Revelation 9".
This volume focuses on how two hypothetical ancient
hearer-constructs, with very different 'mental libraries', may
interpret the rich cosmological imagery of "Revelation 9". Part I
considers the range of literary texts studied at various points on
the circle of enkuklios paideia. Attention is focused on texts that
had a particular significance for an ancient student's cosmological
knowledge (e.g. Homer, Hesiod, Aratus, Plato). Part II reconstructs
the hypothetical responses of two ancient hearer-constructs. The
first, HC1, has received only a minimal literary education and
adopts a tripartite cosmological model. The second, HC2, by
contrast, is the recipient of a tertiary-level education, with a
preference for a seven-planetary sphere model, such that he
allegorically reinterprets the figures in "Revelation 9" as Aratean
constellational figures. This volume concludes by critically
comparing the hypothetical responses of HC1 and HC2 with the
earliest extant commentators on the Apocalypse (Victorinus,
Tyconius, Lactantius, Oecumenius), as well as the intriguing
'Arateans' cited by Hippolytus. Formerly "The Journal for the Study
of the New Testament Supplement", a book series that explores the
many aspects of New Testament study including historical
perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and
theological, cultural and contextual approaches. "The Early
Christianity in Context series", a part of "JSNTS", examines the
birth and development of early Christianity up to the end of the
third century CE. The series places Christianity in its social,
cultural, political and economic context. European Seminar on
Christian Origins and "Journal for the Study of the Historical
Jesus Supplement" are also part of "JSNTS".
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