Decolonizing Diets: Idol Food, Jewish Diaspora, and the Crisis of John’s Apocalypse

This article explores how Revelation’s Jewish Diaspora negotiated the Roman colonial situation of Asia Minor through their stance on idol food. Scholars have suggested that John wrote to Christians suffering imperial persecution under Domitian. Still, others have proposed a perceived crisis, a proph...

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Main Author: Mata, Roberto (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2024
In: Biblical interpretation
Year: 2024, Volume: 32, Issue: 4, Pages: 414-438
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Revelation / Roman Empire / Persecution / Crisis / Ethnicity / Wealth / Diaspora (Religion) / Judaism / Cult / Idol worship meat
IxTheo Classification:BE Greco-Roman religions
HC New Testament
Further subjects:B imperial persecution
B Ethnicity
B imperial cult
B Decoloniality
B Frantz Fanon
B Jewish Diaspora
B idol food
B Wealth
B Crisis
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