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1 online resource |
| Series |
Library of New Testament studies ; 571 |
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Library of New Testament studies ; 571.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- I Overview -- Part I Contextualizing the Study -- Chapter 1 Reviewing the Past: Previous Studies and Approaches -- I Gregory Beale (1984) -- II Jon Paulien (1988) -- III Jean-Pierre Ruiz (1989) -- IV Jan Fekkes (1994) -- V Steve Moyise (1995) -- VI Alison Jack (1999) -- VII David Mathewson (2003) -- VIII Beate Kowalski (2004) -- IX Marko Jauhiainen (2005) -- X Agreements and Ways Forward -- Chapter 2 Revisualizing the Past: Ancient Imitation and Combination -- I Statues -- II Literary Imitation and Combination -- III Herod's Temple -- IV Second Temple Pseudepigrapha -- V Summary -- Chapter 3 Pastiche: Imitation and Combination -- I What Is Pastiche? -- II Reading Revelation as Pastiche: Methodology and Preview -- Part II Case Studies -- Chapter 4 Listening to All the Voices: Reading Plurality in Revelation 1 -- I The Inaugural Vision of One like a Son of Man (Rev. 1.12-18) -- II Test Cases: Reading Combined Voices -- III Listening to All the Voices in Rev. 1.12-18 -- Chapter 5 Once Upon a Time in Babylon: Reading Revelation 17 Affectively -- I Reading the Whore of Babylon -- II Test Case: Once Upon a Time in the West -- III Rereading the Whore -- Chapter 6 Revelation 18: Far from the Past? -- I Revelation 18: Artifice -- II Similarity Studies -- III Test Case: Far from Heaven -- IV Revelation 18: Like but Not the Same -- Chapter 7 Apocalypse Noir: Rereading Genre through Pastiche -- I Apocalypse Awareness -- II Test Case: Film Noir and Neo-Noir -- III Neo-Apocalypse-Noir -- Chapter 8 Conclusions -- I Overview of Findings and Contributions -- II The Results and Ramifications of Reading Revelation as Pastiche -- Appendix -- I Appendix 1: Tabulated Apocalypse Features -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index |
| Summary |
Scholars have often read the book of Revelation in a way that attempts to ascertain which Old Testament book it most resembles. Instead, we should read it as a combined and imitative text which actively engages the audience through signalling to multiple texts and multiple textual experiences: in short, it is an act of pastiche. Fletcher analyses the methods used to approach Revelation's relationship with Old Testament texts and shows that, although there is literature on Revelation's imitative and multi-vocal nature, these aspects of the text have not yet been explored in sufficient depth. Fletcher's analysis also incorporates an examination of Greco-Roman imitation and combination before providing a better way to understand the nature of the book of Revelation, as pastiche. Fletcher builds her case on four comparative case studies and uses a test case to ascertain how completely they fit with this assessment. These insights are then used to clarify how reading Revelation as imitative and combined pastiche can challenge previous scholarly assumptions, transforming the way we approach the text |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 6, 2017) |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Revelation -- Criticism, Textual
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Bible. Old Testament -- Relation to Revelation
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Bible. Revelation -- Relation to the Old Testament
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
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Bible. Revelation fast |
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Intertextuality in the Bible.
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Imitation.
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Imitative Behavior
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
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Imitation
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Intertextuality in the Bible
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780567672711 |
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0567672719 |
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9780567672728 |
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0567672727 |
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