Archive for the ‘Resistance criticism’ Category

Carey, Elusive Apocalypse

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Carey, Greg: Elusive Apocalypse: Reading Authority in the Revelation to John. (Studies in Biblical Hermeneutics, 15). Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1999. xiv + 209 pp.Employing not only the rhetorical notion of authorial ethos, but postcolonial and resistance criticism, this book, a (probably revised) edition of ...

Barr (ed.), Reality of Apocalypse

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Barr, David Lawrence (ed.) The Reality of Apocalypse: Rhetoric and Politics in the Book of Revelation. Society of Biblical Literature symposium series, 39. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2006. ix + 306 pp. RRP £19.22Barr, who headed the Seminar on the Apocalypse: The Intersection of Literary and Social Methos, has selected a ...

Johns, Lamb Christology (abstract)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Johns, Loren L. The Origins and Rhetorical Force of the Lamb Christology of the Apocalypse of John. Bluffton College. Dissertation Adviser: Dr. James H. Charlesworth. Date of defence: 13 Feb 1998.An investigation of the origins and rhetorical force of the lamb imagery in the Apocalypse of John. Chapter one introduces ...

Carey, Attention-Seeking Behaviour (abstract)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Carey, William Gregory. Attention-Seeking Behavior: Rhetoric, Resistance, and Authority in the Book of Revelation. Dissertation under the direction of Professor Fernando F. Segovia. Vanderbilt University, 1996.Authority represents a fundamental dimension of the Book of Revelation, which resists the Roman Empire of the late first century and those Jews, Christians, ...