Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation
Roasting Rome
Seiten
2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-49659-9 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-49659-9 (ISBN)
Will appeal to those interested in the book of Revelation, humor and the Bible, the Jewishness of the New Testament, and contemporary and critical approaches to the New Testament. This book positions Revelation within an ancient Jewish context and demonstrates the ways in which the author used humor as a means of resisting Roman power.
Empire-critical and postcolonial readings of Revelation are now commonplace, but scholars have not yet put these views into conversation with Jewish trauma and cultural survival strategies. In this book, Sarah Emanuel positions Revelation within its ancient Jewish context. Proposing a new reading of Revelation, she demonstrates how the text's author, a first century CE Jewish Christ-follower, used humor as a means of resisting Roman power. Emanuel uses multiple critical lenses, including humor, trauma, and postcolonial theory, together with historical-critical methods. These approaches enable a deeper understanding of the Jewishness of the early Christ-centered movement, and how Jews in antiquity related to their cultural and religious identity. Emanuel's volume offers new insights and fills a gap in contemporary scholarship on Revelation and biblical scholarship more broadly.
Empire-critical and postcolonial readings of Revelation are now commonplace, but scholars have not yet put these views into conversation with Jewish trauma and cultural survival strategies. In this book, Sarah Emanuel positions Revelation within its ancient Jewish context. Proposing a new reading of Revelation, she demonstrates how the text's author, a first century CE Jewish Christ-follower, used humor as a means of resisting Roman power. Emanuel uses multiple critical lenses, including humor, trauma, and postcolonial theory, together with historical-critical methods. These approaches enable a deeper understanding of the Jewishness of the early Christ-centered movement, and how Jews in antiquity related to their cultural and religious identity. Emanuel's volume offers new insights and fills a gap in contemporary scholarship on Revelation and biblical scholarship more broadly.
Sarah Emanuel is currently Faculty Fellow of Biblical Studies at Colby College, Maine. Her work has been published in Studia Patristica, Biblical Interpretation, The Bible and Critical Theory, and the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. She is a forum board member at Feminist Studies in Religion, Inc., a Regional Scholar finalist, and a Global Innovation Grant recipient.
Introduction; 1. Backgrounds, backdrops, and other important starting points; 2. Survival of the humorist; 3. The comic truth; 4. The trick revealed; 5. I pledge allegiance to the lamb; Conclusion.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.01.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises; 7 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 490 g |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-49659-8 / 1108496598 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-49659-9 / 9781108496599 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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