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HEARING AT THE BOUNDARIES OF VISION IBD

BLOOMSBURY 3PL
11 / 2013
9780567222169
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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.

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66,54