Revelations of ideology: apocalyptic class politics in early Roman Palestine
Dissertation, Department of Religous Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, 2017
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Leiden ; Boston
Brill
2018
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| Schriftenreihe: | Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism
volume 189 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Dissertation, Department of Religous Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, 2017 "In Revelations of Ideology, G. Anthony Keddie proposes a new theory of the social function of Judaean apocalyptic texts produced in Early Roman Palestine (63 BCE-70 CE). In contrast to evaluations of Jewish and early Christian apocalyptic texts as "literature of the oppressed" or literature of resistance against empire, Keddie demonstrates that scribes produced apocalyptic texts to advance ideologies aimed at self-legitimation. By revealing that their opponents constituted an exploitative class, scribes generated apocalyptic ideologies that situated them in the same exploited class as their constituents. Through careful historical and ideological criticism of the Psalms of Solomon, Parables of Enoch, Testament of Moses, and Q source, Keddie identifies an internally diverse tradition of apocalyptic class rhetoric in late Second Temple Judaism"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIX, 372 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9789004383630 978-90-04-38363-0 |