Sarah Emanuel

Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation

Roasting Rome

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Positions Revelation within an ancient Jewish context and demonstrates how the author used humor to resist Roman power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781108496599
• ISBN-10: 1108496598
• Artikelnr.: 57017312

Autorenporträt

Sarah Emanuel is currently Faculty Fellow of Biblical Studies at Colby College, Maine. Her work has been published in Studia Patristica, Biblical Interpretation, The Bible and Critical Theory, and the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. She is a forum board member at Feminist Studies in Religion, Inc., a Regional Scholar finalist, and a Global Innovation Grant recipient.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Backgrounds, backdrops, and other important starting points
2. Survival of the humorist
3. The comic truth
4. The trick revealed
5. I pledge allegiance to the lamb
Conclusion.