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Author : Anna M V Bowden
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-12
Revelation And The Marble Economy Of Roman Ephesus written by Anna M V Bowden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12 with categories.
"In an effort to demonstrate the (im)practicalities of John's command for withdrawal (18:4), this book reconstructs the marble economy of Roman Ephesus and reads Revelation through the daily lives of its workers. It concludes that John's call for zero cultural participation is utterly devastating for its workers"--
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Author : Anna M. V. Bowden
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-12-10
Revelation And The Marble Economy Of Roman Ephesus written by Anna M. V. Bowden and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-10 with Religion categories.
In an effort to bring the (im)practicalities of John’s command for withdrawal from cultural participation in 18:4 to the forefront of scholarly discourse, this book reconstructs the marble economy of ancient Ephesus and proceeds to read Revelation by foregrounding the daily lives of its marble-workers. This book argues that Ephesus was a major center of the marble economy in the Roman world and that the infrastructure that went into creating, building, and sustaining such an enterprise generated the need for a large workforce. Anna M. V. Bowden further demonstrates that the majority of marble-workers endured poor working conditions and struggled on a daily basis to ensure subsistence. Finally, Bowden explores the ways marble-workers participated in empire “through the work of their hands” (9:20) and questions John’s characterization of marble-workers as idolaters, sorcerers, murderers, fornicators, and thieves. Bowden concludes that the praxis Revelation requires from its audience of complete withdrawal is pragmatically not sustainable and is ultimately a manifesto leaving marble-workers jobless, hungry, and with a heightened risk for malnutrition, disease, injury, and even death.
Matthew Disability And Stress
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Author : Jillian D. Engelhardt
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2022-10-25
Matthew Disability And Stress written by Jillian D. Engelhardt and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-25 with Religion categories.
In Matthew, Disability, and Stress: Examining Impaired Characters in the Context of Empire, Jillian D. Engelhardt examines four Matthean healing narratives, focusing on the impaired characters in the scenes. Her reading is informed by both empire studies and social stress theory, a method that explores how the stress inherent in social location can affect psychosomatic health. By examining the Roman imperial context in which common folk lived and worked, she argues that attention to social and somatic circumstances, which may have accompanied or caused the described disabilities/impairments, destabilizes readings of these stories that suggest the encounter with Jesus was straightforwardly good and the healing was permanent. Instead, Engelhardt proposes various new contexts for and offers more nuanced characterizations of the disabled/impaired people in each discussed scene, resulting in ambiguous interpretations that de-center Jesus and challenge able-bodied assumptions about embodiment, disability, and healing.
Revelation And The Marble Economy Of Roman Ephesus
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Author : Anna M. V. Bowden
language : en
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Release Date : 2020-12-15
Revelation And The Marble Economy Of Roman Ephesus written by Anna M. V. Bowden and has been published by Fortress Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-15 with categories.
In an effort to demonstrate the (im)practicalities of John's command for withdrawal (18:4), this book reconstructs the marble economy of Roman Ephesus and reads Revelation through the daily lives of its workers. It concludes that John's call for zero cultural participation is utterly devastating for its workers.
The Nonviolent Apocalypse
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Author : Jeffrey D. Meyers
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-11-08
The Nonviolent Apocalypse written by Jeffrey D. Meyers and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-08 with Religion categories.
Revelation is resistance literature, written to instruct early Christians on how to live as followers of Jesus in the Roman Empire. The Nonviolent Apocalypse uses modern examples and scholarship on nonviolence to help illuminate Revelation’s resistance, arguing that Revelation’s famously violent visions are actually acts of nonviolent resistance to the Empire. The visions form part of Revelation’s proclamation of God’s way as a just and life-giving alternative to the system constructed by Rome. Revelation urges its readers to pursue this radical form of living, engaging in nonviolent resistance to all that stands in the way of God’s vision for the world.
The Book Of Revelation
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Author : Martin M. Culy
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2017-10-06
The Book Of Revelation written by Martin M. Culy and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-06 with Religion categories.
Revelation, by any modern standard, is a strange book. It has intrigued and perplexed readers through the centuries, and all too often has fallen victim to fanciful interpretations. Although it may seem mysterious and impenetrable to us today, it represents a distinct message in language and imagery that was familiar to the original readers, woven together into a beautiful tapestry of twenty-two interconnected chapters. The Book of Revelation: The Rest of the Story demonstrates that the key to understanding the message of Revelation is found in this intricate relationship between the seven "letters" and the rest of the book, with the visions of Revelation 4-22 building on, fleshing out, and driving home each of the messages to the seven churches in Revelation 2-3. In the end, Revelation proves to be not primarily a guide to how things are going to unfold at the end of the age, but rather a profound call to a life of radical devotion to Jesus regardless of one's circumstances.
The Book Of Revelation And The Visual Culture Of Asia Minor
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Author : Andrew R. Guffey
language : en
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Release Date : 2019-09-15
The Book Of Revelation And The Visual Culture Of Asia Minor written by Andrew R. Guffey and has been published by Fortress Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-15 with Bible categories.
Comparing the verbal images of the book of Revelation to the visual rhetoric and images of Asia Minor, Andrew R. Guffey argues that Revelation is to be "seen" and not just read. By engaging Revelation as a visual text, Guffey reinserts it into the visual culture of early Christianity.
The Walls Of Babylon
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Author : David Arthur
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-08-22
The Walls Of Babylon written by David Arthur and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-22 with Religion categories.
The Walls of Babylon is a radically revisionist reading of the Revelation to John, offering startling insights into the historical roots of Gnosticism, the social dynamics of early Christianity, and the shattering impact of apocalyptic eschatology. Based on a careful analysis of the text, David Arthur argues that the motivating circumstance for Revelation was provided not by external Roman oppression but by a fierce internal dispute between gnostic and proto-orthodox factions within the early church. In the ensuing controversy, John did not side with ecclesiastical officials, as might be expected, but instead took up the cause of the persecuted outcasts. Following the precedent of the classical prophets, he speaks as a champion for the downtrodden and dispossessed––represented, for him, by the gnostic heretics. The book he has left us presents a fiery symbolic rebuke of proto-orthodox Christianity, and by extension, challenges normative religious paradigms at every level of belief and praxis.
Recovering The Monstrous In Revelation
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Author : Heather Macumber
language : en
Publisher: Horror and Scripture
Release Date : 2021-09-15
Recovering The Monstrous In Revelation written by Heather Macumber and has been published by Horror and Scripture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-15 with categories.
Strange hybrid and liminal creatures populate the pages of the book of Revelation but only some are called monsters. Heather Macumber challenges traditional binary descriptors of good and evil to argue that all cosmic beings are monstrous, whether they originate in heaven or the abyss.
The First Urban Churches 5
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Author : James R. Harrison
language : en
Publisher: SBL Press
Release Date : 2019-11-23
The First Urban Churches 5 written by James R. Harrison and has been published by SBL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-23 with Religion categories.
A fresh examination of early Christianity by an international team of New Testament and classical scholars Volume 5 of The First Urban Churches investigates the urban context of Christian churches in first-century Roman Colossae, Hierapolis, and Laodicea. Building on the methodologies introduced in the first volume and supplementing the in-depth studies of Corinth, Ephesus, and Philippi (vols. 2-4), essays in this volume challenge readers to reexamine preconceived understandings of the early church and to grapple with the meaning and context of Christianity in its first-century Roman colonial context. Features: Analysis of urban evidence found in inscriptions, papyri, archaeological remains, coins, and iconography Proposed reconstructions of the past and its social, religious, and political significance A nuanced, informed portrait of ancient urban life in the cities of the Lycus Valley