Book of Revelation and the Visual Culture of Asia Minor - A Concurrence of Images

Comparing the verbal images of the book of Revelation to the visual rhetoric and images of Asia Minor, Andrew R. Guffey argues that Revelation is to be "seen" and not just read. By engaging Revelation as a visual text, Guffey reinserts it into the visual culture of early Christianity.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Apocalyptic Images Beyond the Verbal-Visual Opposition
Chapter 2. The Image and the Pictorial Turn
Chapter 3. Rhetoric and the Book of Revelation
Chapter 4. Ancient Ekphrasis
Chapter 5. Ekphrastic Analogues in John's Apocalypse
Chapter 6. In the Image of the Emperor?
Chapter 7. The Great "Altar" of Pergamon and the Divine Throne Room
Chapter 8. Queen of Heaven

About the author

Andrew R. Guffey is visiting instructor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.

Summary

Comparing the verbal images of the book of Revelation to the visual images of Asia Minor, Andrew R. Guffey argues that Revelation is to be “seen” and not just read. By engaging Revelation as a visual text, Guffey reinserts it into the art history of early Christianity.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Guffey, Andrew R. Guffey
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781978706576
• ISBN: 978-1-978706-57-6
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; ART / History / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory