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Hearing at the Boundaries of Vision

Education Informing Cosmology in Revelation 9

  • Paperback
  • 296 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.6 cm

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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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  • Title

    Hearing at the Boundaries of Vision

  • Author

    Dr Sean Michael Ryan

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

  • Published

    November 2013

  • Edition

    NIPPOD

  • Weight

    414g

  • Page Count

    296

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567222169

  • ISBN-10

    0567222160

  • Eden Code

    4242325

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