The Ladies and the Cities: Transformation and Apocalyptic Identity in Joseph and Aseneth, 4 Ezra, the Apocalypse and the Shepherd of Hermas (Library of Second Temple Studies, 17, Band 17) - Hardcover

Humphrey, Edith M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1850755353 ISBN 13: 9781850755357

Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group - Sheffie, 1995

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Transcendence in general and transformation in particular have long been established as key motifs in apocalypses. The transformation of a seer during a heavenly journey is found commonly in such esoteric apocalypses as I Enoch. No heavenly journey occurs in the apocalypses treated here. Rather, symbolic women figures--"ladies" in the classical sense--who are associated with God's city or Tower, undergo transformation at key points in the action. The surface structures of Joseph and Aseneth, 4 Ezra, the Apocalypse and The Shepherd of Hermas are traced, and the crucial transformation episodes are located within each structure. Transformation of figures which represent God's people points to the significance of identitiy within the apocalyptic perspective. Earlier analyses have demonstrated that the apocalyptic perspective urges the reader to consider life from a different stance in time and in space ("temporal" and "spatial" axes). The present analysis suggests that the apocalypse also charts its revelations along an "axis of identity" so that the reader is invited to become, as it were, someone more in tune with the mysteries he or she is viewing. Of special interest is the treatment of the increasingly well-known romance Joseph and Aseneth alongside apocalypses, a parallel which is fruitful because of the curious visionary sequence, closely related to apocalypse in content and form, which is found in the inner centre of that work.

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Edith M. Humphrey is the William F. Orr Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.

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• Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group - Sheffie
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1850755353
• ISBN 13: 9781850755357
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Herausgeber: Grabbe Lester L.
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