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Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation: Roasting Rome

by Maine) Sarah Emanuel (colby College

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.8 x 23.2 x 1.8 cm

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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.
Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation: Roasting Rome and John for Everyone Part 1 : Chapters 1-10
John for Everyone Part 1 : Chapters 1-10Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation: Roasting Rome

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    January 2020

  • Weight

    454g

  • Dimensions

    15.8 x 23.2 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781108496599

  • ISBN-10

    1108496598

  • Eden Code

    5074432

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