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Hearing at the Boundaries of Vision

Hearing at the Boundaries of Vision Religion & Esotericism

Hearing at the Boundaries of Vision

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This study considers how a significant variable, namely level of literary education (enkuklios paideia), might affect an ancient hearer's interpretation of Revelation 9. This volume focuses on how two hypothetical ancient hearer-constructs, with very different "mental libraries", may interpret the rich cosmological imagery of Revelation 9. The first, ancient hearer-construct (HC1), the recipient of a minimal literary education, retains a Homeric cosmological model. The second ancient hearer-construct (HC2), by contrast, utilises a tertiary-level knowledge of Aratus and Plato to allegorically reinterpret the cosmological imagery of Rev 9 (cf. 'Hippolytus', Refutatio IV.46-50). The volume concludes by critically comparing the hypothetical responses of HC1 and HC2 with the early reception of Revelation 9 by Victorinus, Tyconius and Oecumenius (3rd-6th century CE), attentive to the educational attainment of each commentator.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
292
Release Date:
2012-02-23
Publication Date:
2012-02-23
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0567604896
ISBN13:
9780567604897
Weight:
605 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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