Hearing at the Boundaries of Vision - Education Informing Cosmology in Revelation 9

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.>

About the author

Dr Sean Michael Ryan is a Lecturer in Biblical Studies, Heythrop College,
University of London

Product details

• Authors: Dr Sean Michael Ryan, Sean Michael Ryan
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9780567222169
• ISBN: 978-0-567-22216-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Bloomsbury T&T Clark; Library of New Testament Studi; Library of New Testament Studi
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity