Hearing at the Boundaries of Vision: Education Informing Cosmology in Revelation 9 (Library of New Testament Studies | LNTS)
Overview
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.
Key Features
- Examples how educational levels affect interpretation for the original audience
- Recent developments in Johannine studies
- In-depth academic treatment of significant texts and themes in Johannine literature
Contents
- Graeco-Roman Cosmologies
- Hearer-Construct One (HC1): Interpretation of the Cosmology of Rev 9:1-19
- Hearer-Construct Two (HC2): Interpretation of the Cosmology of Rev 9:1-12
- Victorinus, Tyconius and Oecumenius: Interpretation of the Cosmology of Rev 9
Product Details
- Title: Hearing at the Boundaries of Vision: Education Informing Cosmology in Revelation 9
- Author: Sean Michael Ryan
- Series: Library of New Testament Studies
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Publication Date: 2013
- Pages: 296
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Topic: Johannine Studies