Accommodating “Jezebel” and Withdrawing John: Negotiating Empire in Revelation Then and Now
Revelation addresses a struggle over how followers of Jesus might negotiate the complex imperial realities of Roman rule. The call for societal distance and disengagement resists and seeks to conceal other voices that urge greater levels of societal interaction. Revelation also raises the urgent iss...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
2009
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Interpretation
Year: 2009, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 32-47 |
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Summary: | Revelation addresses a struggle over how followers of Jesus might negotiate the complex imperial realities of Roman rule. The call for societal distance and disengagement resists and seeks to conceal other voices that urge greater levels of societal interaction. Revelation also raises the urgent issue of how contemporary followers of Jesus might negotiate the world's most powerful empire—the one we in the United States inhabit. |
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ISSN: | 2159-340X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Interpretation
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/002096430906300104 |