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Hearing at the Boundaries of Vision: Education Informing Cosmology in Revelation 9

Hearing at the Boundaries of Vision: Education Informing Cosmology in Revelation 9

Ryan, Sean Michael

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Series: Library of New Testament Studies

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 0567222160
ISBN13: 9780567222169
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 2 2014
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This study considers how a significant variable, namely level of literary education (enkuklios paideia), 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.

The first, ancient hearer-construct (HC1), the recipient of a minimal literary education, retains a Homeric cosmological model. The second ancient hearer-construct (HC2), by contrast, utilises a tertiary-level knowledge of Aratus and Plato to allegorically reinterpret the cosmological imagery of Rev 9 (cf. 'Hippolytus', Refutatio IV.46-50). The volume concludes by critically comparing the hypothetical responses of HC1 and HC2 with the early reception of Revelation 9 by Victorinus, Tyconius and Oecumenius (3rd-6th century CE), attentive to the educational attainment of each commentator.

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