Humor, resistance, and Jewish cultural persistence in the book of Revelation : roasting Rome /

Humor, resistance, and Jewish cultural persistence in the book of Revelation : roasting Rome / Sarah Emanuel.

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"Empire-critical and postcolonial readings of Revelation are now commonplace, but scholars have not yet put these views into conversation with Jewish trauma and cultural survival strategies. In this book, Sarah Emanuel positions Revelation within its ancient Jewish context. Proposing a new read...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Emanuel, Sarah, 1987- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Bible. > Revelation > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Revelation.
To 1500
Jewish Christians > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Wit and humor in the Bible.
Government, Resistance to > Rome > History.
Government, Resistance to > Religious aspects > Christianity > History.
Judaism > Relations > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Christianity and other religions > Judaism > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Christianity.
Government, Resistance to.
Government, Resistance to > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Interfaith relations.
Jewish Christians > Early church.
Judaism.
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The beginning of the (comic) end the beginning of the (comic) end
  • Backgrounds, backdrops, and other important starting points
  • Survival of the humorist: reading for trauma, reading for humor
  • The comic truth: claiming a Jewish cultural self through humor
  • The trick revealed: a dragon, two beasts, and a whore walk into the Bible
  • I pledge allegiance to the lamb: humor, hybridity, and a reading against the gaze
  • Living beyond the (comic) end.

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