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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9780567151322
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2015
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Bloomsbury T&T Clark
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Engelsk
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