Reading Revelation After Supersessionism (eBook)

An Apocalyptic Journey of Socially Identifying John’s Multi-Ethnic Ekklēsiai with the Ekklēsia of Israel

Ralph J. Korner (Autor)

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2020
332 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-7252-7467-9 (ISBN)

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In this volume, Ralph Korner argues that John's extensive social identification with Judaism(s), Jewishness, and Jewish institutions does not reflect a literary program of replacing Israel with the ekklēsiai ("churches"/"assemblies"), that is the Jewish and non-Jewish followers of Jesus as Israel's Messiah. Rather, John is emplacing his Christ-followers further within Israel, without thereby superseding Israel as a national identity for ethnic Jews who do not follow Jesus as the Christos.
There are three primary roads travelled in this investigative journey. First, Korner explores ways in which a Jewish heritage is intrinsic to the literary structure, genre, eschatology, symbolism, and theological motifs of the Apocalypse. Second, he challenges the linear chronology of (generally) supersessionist dispensational readings of Revelation's visionary content by arguing for a reiterative/repetitive structure based on certain literary devices that also provide structure for visions within Jewish apocalypses and Hebrew prophecies. Third, he incorporates the most recent research on ekklēsia usage, especially in Asia Minor, to assess how John's ekklēsia associations might have been (non-supersessionally) perceived, especially by Jews in Roman Asia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.11.2020
• Reihe/Serie: New Testament after Supersessionism
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: Antisemitism • Apocalypse • Bible • Biblical Criticism and Interpretation • Biblical Studies • Biblical teaching • Book of Revelation • Christian and quasi-Christian cults and sects • Christianity • counter-imperialism • Criticism • Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts • ekklēsia • Ekklēsia (The Greek word) • ETC • Gentiles in the New Testament • Interpretation • Jewish-Christian relations • Jews in the New Testament • Judaism(s) • Messianic Judaism • New Testament • Ralph J. Korner • Reading Revelation After Supersessionism • Revelation • Supersessionism • telescopic reiteration
• ISBN-10: 1-7252-7467-1 / 1725274671
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7252-7467-9 / 9781725274679