The Poetics of Angelic Discourse: Revelation 2-3 and the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice
Revelation extensively employs the number seven not only as a symbolic figure, but also as a structural principle for constructing sevenfold literary units, and yet some specific aspects of this literary hallmark remain obscure. Among other things, no satisfactory rationale has been found, so far, f...
| Published in: | Journal for the study of the New Testament |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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Journal for the study of the New Testament
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sieben Sendschreiben
/ Sabbatopferlieder (Qumran Scrolls)
/ Textual structure
/ Angel
/ Seven
/ Symbol
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CD Christianity and Culture HC New Testament HD Early Judaism NBH Angelology; demonology |
| Further subjects: | B
numerical symbolism
B Revelation 2-3 B Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice B Angelology B Liturgy B seven B literary structure |
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| Summary: | Revelation extensively employs the number seven not only as a symbolic figure, but also as a structural principle for constructing sevenfold literary units, and yet some specific aspects of this literary hallmark remain obscure. Among other things, no satisfactory rationale has been found, so far, for the series of proclamations to seven churches of Asia Minor that comprise the literary unit of Rev. 2-3. This mystery, however, can be illuminated (at least to some degree) by reading Revelation against the background of poetic traditions of the Second Temple period. Analysis of a poem included in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice - a liturgical composition whose fragmentary copies were discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls - prompts a new solution to the questions posed by Rev. 2-3. At the same time, the comparison also sheds light on some literary peculiarities of the Songs. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5294 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0142064X18788982 |