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Revelation: Vision of a Just World

Revelation: Vision of a Just World

by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Revelation: Vision of a Just World
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ISBN-10:
0800625102
ISBN-13:
9780800625108
Pub. Date:
03/01/1992
Publisher:
1517 Media
ISBN-10:
0800625102
ISBN-13:
9780800625108
Pub. Date:
03/01/1992
Publisher:
1517 Media
Revelation: Vision of a Just World

Revelation: Vision of a Just World

by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Overview

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza charts a new and provocative course in the interpretation of the book of Revelation. She recognizes not only the ideological distortions but also the sociopolitical location of the Apocalypse. In this way she opens to the reader the world of vision of this powerful New Testament book. This book has three major sections: (1) an introduction that centers on social location and rhetorical analysis; (2) the commentary; and (3) a theo-ethical rhetorical reading of the visionary world of the book of Revelation under the headings of empire, tribulation, resistance, and competing voices

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780800625108
Publisher: 1517 Media
Publication date: 03/01/1992
Series: Proclamation Commentaries
Edition description: REVISED
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza is Krister Stendahl Professor at Harvard Divinity School, a founding co-editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, past president of the Society of Biblical Literature, and author of many important and influential works, among them In Memory of Her (1984), Bread Not Stone (1985), Jesus: Miriam"s Child, Sophia"s Prophet (1995), Rhetoric and Ethic: The Politics of Biblical Studies (1999), The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire (2007), and Democratizing Biblical Studies: Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space (2009). Empowering Memory and Movement is the third volume in her collected essays from Fortress Press, including Transforming Vision: Explorations in Feminist The*logy (2011) and Changing Horizons: Explorations in Feminist Interpretation (2013). She is editor of Searching the Scriptures (two volumes, 1993, 1994), a feminist introduction and commentary.

Table of Contents

Preface

Map of Asia Minor

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION:

A. Social Location and Strategies of Reading

1. Reading Revelation in and from the Margins

2. Scientific Historical-Critical and Literary-Critical Readings

B. A Rhetorical Analysis of Revelation

1. The Generic Tenor of Revelation

2. Stylistic Phrasing: Language and Imagery

3. Rhetorical Arrangement and Composition

PART TWO: COMMENTARY:

A. Prologue and Epistolary Greeting: Revelation 1:1-8

B. Rhetorical Situation in the Cities of Asia Minor: Revelation 1:9 — 3:22

C. Opening the Sealed Scroll: Exodus Plagues: Revelation 4:1 — 9:21

D. The Bitter-Sweet Scroll: "War" against the Community: Revelation 10:1 — 15:4

C'. Exodus from the Oppression of Babylon/Rome: Revelation 15:5 — 19:10

B'. Liberation from Evil and God's World-City: Revelation 19:11 — 22:9

A'. Epilogue and Epistolary Frame: Revelation 22:10-21

PART THREE: THEO-ETHICAL RHETORIC

A. Rhetorical World of Vision: Empire

B. Rhetorical Exigence: Tribulation

C. Rhetorical Motivation; Resistance

D. Rhetorical Restraints: Competing Voices

Selected Bibliography

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