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Revelation and material religion in the Roman East : essays in honor of Steven J. Friesen / edited by Nathan Leach, Daniel Charles Smith, and Tony Keddie.

"This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and ideological dimensions of John's Apocalypse and the religious landscape of the Roman East. Readers will gain new perspectives on the in...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Leach, Nathan (Editor), Smith, Daniel Charles (Editor), Keddie, G. Anthony (Editor), Friesen, Steven J. (honouree.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Series:Routledge monographs in classical studies.
Subjects:
Friesen, Steven J.
Bible > History of contemporary events.
Bible. > Revelation > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Corinthians, 1st > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.
Bible. > Corinthians, 1st.
Bible. > Revelation.
Material culture > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Rome > Religion > Middle Eastern influences.
Middle East > Religious life and customs.
Corinth (Greece) > Religious life and customs.
History of contemporary events.
Greece > Corinth.
Middle East.
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Daniel Charles Smith, Nathan Leach, and Tony Keddie
  • Selected publications of Steven J. Friesen
  • Apocalypse beyond dualism : connectivity and metamorphose among modes of existence / Paulo Augusto De Souza Nogueira
  • Reading enslavement in Revelation / Lynn R. Huber
  • Disabling the Laodikean Assembly : power of sight as site of power in Revelation 3:14- 22 / Daniel Charles Smith
  • Paul and the 'other' in Revelation's Letters to the Seven Churches revisited / Geoffrey S. Smith
  • Subversive consumption : Revelation's food discourse within Roman narratives of invasive foreignness / Nathan Leach
  • Blood sacrifice in Revelation and Roman Asia : encoding and decoding embodied experience / Tony Keddie
  • (Inc)sensing Revelation : incense, senses, and the agency of incense utensils in the Apocalypse of John / Dominika Kurek-Chomycz
  • The institutional function of the Agora and its relevance to New Testament studies : a new institutional economics approach to the Athenian Agora and the New Testament / Alex Hon Ho Ip
  • Disposable or transforming body? 1 Cor 15:35-57 in the context of gladiatorial games in Ancient Corinth / Jin Young Kim
  • The terrace houses at Ephesos, domestic religion, and Pauline discourses of space / Christine Thomas
  • 'We're going to need a bigger altar!' Evidence for a massive sacrifice of young sheep/goats at Omrit in Northern Israel / Daniel N. Schowalter
  • Untempled altars : ritualized space beyond the Temenos in Ancient Priene / Adeline Harrington
  • Hera in the North-Eastern Peloponnese : cult epithets as containers of cultural memory / Jorunn Økland
  • The lust for recognition and influence : Laodikeia and the quest for Neokorate status / Alan H. Cadwallader
  • Vibrant pomegranates : urbanism and new materialism in Ancient Side / Jaimie Gunderson
  • Problematizing the 'discovery' of Pepouza and Tymion / Caroline Crews
  • Partaking of the death-proclaiming meal for life : re-reading 1 Cor 11:17-34 from the lens of post-traumatic growth / Ma. Marilou S. Ibita.

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