Reading Revelation as pastiche : imitating the past / Michelle Fletcher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fletcher, Michelle, author.

Series:

Library of New Testament studies ; 571.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Library of New Testament studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Revelation--Criticism, Textual.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Relation to Revelation.

Bible. Revelation--Relation to the Old Testament.

Bible. Revelation.

Bible. Old Testament.

Intertextuality in the Bible.

Imitation.

Criticism, Textual.

Physical Description:

xiii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

Summary:

The Library of New Testament Studies (LNTS) is a premier book series that offers cutting-edge work for a readership of scholars, teachers in the field of New Testament studies, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates. All the many and diverse aspects of New Testament study are represented and promoted, including innovative work from historical perspectives, studies using social-scientific and literary theory, and developing theological, cultural and contextual approaches. Reading Revelation as Pastiche, This volume endeavours to read the book of Revelation not merely in an effort to ascertain which hook of the Old Testament it most, resembles, but primarily as a combined and imitative text which actively engages the audience via signalling to multiple texts and textual experiences. Using an engaging and comprehensive overview of the current major trends in Revelation research, Fletcher pushes for recognising Revelation as an act of pastiche. Fletcher analyses contemporary methods used to approach Revelation's relationship with Old Testament texts, showing that, although there is copious literature on Revelation's imitative and multi-vocal nature, these aspects of the text have not yet been explored in sufficient depth. Her analysis also incorporates an examination of Greco-Roman imitation and combination, employing an interdisciplinary evaluation in order to provide a better way to understand the nature of the book of Revelation as pastiche. Fletcher's argument is built on four comparative case studies, featuring test cases to ascertain how completely they fit with this assessment. This involves the analysis of different sections of the text and topics such as reading plurality and re-reading genres through pastiche. Taken together these insights help to clarify how reading Revelation as imitative and combined pastiche can challenge previous scholarly assumptions, and transform the way readers will approach it. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Contextualizing the Study

Chapter 1 Reviewing the Past: Previous Studies and Approaches 7

I Gregory Beale (1984) 9

II Jon Paulien (1988) 12

III Jean-Pierre Ruiz (1989) 13

IV Jan Fekkes (1994) 15

V Steve Moyise (1995) 16

VI Alison Jack (1999) 20

VII David Mathewson (2003) 21

VIII Beate Kowalski (2004) 22

IX Marko Jauhiainen (2005) 23

X Agreements and Ways Forward 25

Chapter 2 Revisualizing the Past: Ancient Imitation and Combination 29

I Statues 30

II Literary Imitation and Combination 36

III Herod's Temple 39

IV Second Temple Pseudepigrapha 42

V Summary 46

Chapter 3 Pastiche: Imitation and Combination 48

I What Is Pastiche? 48

II Reading Revelation as Pastiche: Methodology and Preview 61

Part II Case Studies

Chapter 4 Listening to All the Voices: Reading Plurality in Revelation 75

I The Inaugural Vision of One like a Son of Man (Rev. 1.12-18) 76

II Test Cases: Reading Combined Voices 82

III Listening to All the Voices in Rev. 1.12-18 90

Chapter 5 Once Upon a Time in Babylon: Reading Revelation 17 Affectively 99

I Reading the Whore of Babylon 100

II Test Case: Once Upon a Time in the West 114

III Rereading the Whore 124

Chapter 6 Revelation 18: Far from the Past? 137

I Revelation 18: Artifice 138

II Similarity Studies 143

III Test Case: Far from Heaven 156

IV Revelation 18: Like but Not the Same 169

Chapter 7 Apocalypse Noir: Rereading Genre through Pastiche 182

I Apocalypse Awareness 185

II Test Case: Film Noir and Neo-Noir 195

III Neo-Apocalypse-Noir 205

Chapter 8 Conclusions 214

I Overview of Findings and Contributions 214

II The Results and Ramifications of Reading Revelation as Pastiche 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780567672704

0567672700

OCLC:

974794529