Humor, resistance, and Jewish cultural persistence in the book of Revelation: roasting Rome
The beginning of the (comic) end the beginning of the (comic) end -- Backgrounds, backdrops, and other important starting points -- Survival of the humorist: reading for trauma, reading for humor -- The comic truth: claiming a Jewish cultural self through humor -- The trick revealed: a dragon, two b...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Cambridge New York, NY Melbourne New Delhi Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Revelation
/ Humor
/ Resistance
/ Imperialism
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Revelation
Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Government, Resistance to (Rome) History B Jewish Christians History Early church, ca. 30-600 B Judaism Relations Christianity History To 1500 B Christianity and other religions Judaism History Early church, ca. 30-600 B Wit and humor in the Bible B Government, Resistance to Religious aspects Christianity History B Thesis |
| Summary: | The beginning of the (comic) end the beginning of the (comic) end -- Backgrounds, backdrops, and other important starting points -- Survival of the humorist: reading for trauma, reading for humor -- The comic truth: claiming a Jewish cultural self through humor -- The trick revealed: a dragon, two beasts, and a whore walk into the Bible -- I pledge allegiance to the lamb: humor, hybridity, and a reading against the gaze -- Living beyond the (comic) end. "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 Christfollower, 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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1108496598 |