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Humor, resistance, and Jewish cultural persistence in the book of Revelation : roasting Rome
- Title
- Humor, resistance, and Jewish cultural persistence in the book of Revelation : roasting Rome / Sarah Emanuel.
- Author
- Emanuel, Sarah, 1987-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- xii, 234 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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 reading of Revelation, she demonstrates how the text's author, a first century CE Jewish Christfollower, used humor as a means of resisting Roman power. Emanuel uses multiple critical lenses, including humor, trauma, and postcolonial theory, together with historical-critical methods. These approaches enable a deeper understanding of the Jewishness of the early Christ-centered movement, and how Jews in antiquity related to their cultural and religious identity. Emanuel's volume offers new insights and fills a gap in contemporary scholarship on Revelation and biblical scholarship more broadly"--
- Subjects
- Judaism
- Government, Resistance to
- Government, Resistance to > Religious aspects > Christianity
- Bible > Revelation
- Government, Resistance to > Religious aspects > Christianity > History
- Bible > Revelation > Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Wit and humor in the Bible
- History
- Judaism > Relations > Christianity > History > To 1500
- Government, Resistance to > Rome > History
- To 1500
- Jewish Christians > History > Early church, ca. 30-600
- Rome (Empire)
- Christianity
- Interfaith relations
- Jewish Christians > Early church
- Christianity and other religions > Judaism > History > Early church, ca. 30-600
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: 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 -- Conclusion: Living beyond the (comic) end.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-4054
- ISBN
- 9781108496599
- 1108496598
- 9781108721738
- 1108721737
- 9781108634250 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019036959
- OCLC
- 1104918551
- Author
- Emanuel, Sarah, 1987- author.
- Title
- Humor, resistance, and Jewish cultural persistence in the book of Revelation : roasting Rome / Sarah Emanuel.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1500
- Other Form:
- Online version: Emanuel, Sarah, 1987- Humor, resistance, and Jewish cultural persistence in the book of Revelation. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019 9781108634250 (DLC) 2019036960
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-4054