Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen
Redaktion: Leach, Nathan; Keddie, Tony; Smith, Daniel Charles

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and ideological dimensions of John's Apocalypse and the religious landscape of the Roman East.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003800415
• Artikelnr.: 69137220

Autorenporträt

Nathan Leach is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at Texas State University at San Marcos. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His current research analyzes the Revelation of John as part of the wider social landscape of divinatory rituals. Daniel Charles Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Whitman College. He earned his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022. His research investigates how imperial and material processes shaped religion in the Roman Empire, including the Apocalypse of John. Tony Keddie is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Fellow of the Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Christian Origins at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also received his Ph.D. He researches the intersections of religion and labor among Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Daniel Charles Smith, Nathan Leach, and Tony Keddie;Selected Publications of Steven J. Friesen; Part I
Materializing Revelation; 1. Apocalypse beyond Dualism: Connectivity and Metamorphose among Modes of Existence
Paulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira; 2. Reading Enslavement in Revelation
Lynn R. Huber; 3. Disabling the Laodikean Assembly: Power of Sight as Site of Power in Revelation 3:14
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Daniel Charles Smith; 4. Paul and the 'Other' in Revelation's Letters to the Seven Churches Revisited
Geoffrey S. Smith; 5. Subversive Consumption: Revelation's Food Discourse within Roman Narratives of Invasive Foreignness
Nathan Leach; 6. Blood Sacrifice in Revelation and Roman Asia: Encoding and Decoding Embodied Experience
Tony Keddie; 7. (Inc)sensing Revelation: Incense, Senses, and the Agency of Incense Utensils in the Apocalypse of John
Dominika Kurek
Chomycz; Part II
Spatializing Religion and Power; 8.The Institutional Function of the Agora and Its Relevance to New Testament Studies: A New Institutional Economics Approach to the Athenian Agora and the New Testament
Alex Hon Ho Ip; 9. Disposable or Transforming Body? 1 Cor 15:35
57 in the Context of Gladiatorial Games in Ancient Corinth
Jin Young Kim; 10. The Terrace Houses at Ephesos, Domestic Religion, and Pauline Discourses of Space
Christine Thomas; 11. 'We're Going to Need a Bigger Altar!' Evidence for a Massive Sacrifice of Young Sheep/Goats at Omrit in Northern Israel
Daniel N. Schowalter; 12. Untempled Altars: Ritualized Space beyond the Temenos in Ancient Priene
Adeline Harrington; Part III
Politicizing Memory; 13. Hera in the North
Eastern Peloponnese: Cult Epithets as Containers of Cultural Memory
Jorunn Økland; 14. The Lust for Recognition and Influence: Laodikeia and the Quest for Neokorate Status
Alan H. Cadwallader; 15. Vibrant Pomegranates: Urbanism and New Materialism in Ancient Side
Jaimie Gunderson; 16. Problematizing the 'Discovery' of Pepouza and Tymion
Caroline Crews; 17. Partaking of the Death
Proclaiming Meal for Life: Re
Reading 1 Cor 11:17
34 from the Lens of Post
Traumatic Growth
Ma. Marilou S. Ibita.