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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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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Hearing at the Boundaries of Vision
• Author: Sean Michael Ryan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780567222169
• ISBN: 0567222160
• ID: 01989623
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 426 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 164 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. November 2013

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