Apocalypse Now and Then

The «Book of Revelation» in Modern and Ancient Contexts

  • Harry O. Maier

    Professore di Nuovo Testamento e di Studi sul cristianesimo antico - Vancouver School of Theology

  • da lunedì 22 Maggio 2017 a venerdì 26 Maggio 2017
Scuola Alti Studi

  1. Apocalyptic, Apocalypse, and Eschatology: The Elements of a Genre.
  2. Theories of Apocalypse (Part 1).
  3. Theories of Apocalypse (Part 2) and the Book of Revelation as Narrative Construction.
  4. Revelation in Time and Space: Ancient Urban Settings (Part 1).
  5. Revelation in Time and Space: Ancient Urban Settings (Part 2) and Modern Settings (Part 1 – American Exceptionalism).
  6. Revelation in Time and Space: Modern Settings (Part 2 – Dispensationalism and the American Religious Right).
  7. Revelation and Gender.
  8. Revelation as a Symbolic Transformation of the World.
  9. Irony and Parody in the Book of Revelation and Concluding Observations.

Riferimenti Bibliografici

- D.L. Barr, Tales of the End. A Narrative Commentary on the Book of Revelation, Santa Rosa (Calif.), Polebridge Press, 1998*
- P.S. Boyer, When Time Shall be no More. Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture, Cambridge (Mass.), Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992*
- A.Y. Collins, Crisis and Catharsis. The Power of the Apocalypse, Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1984*
- J.J. Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination. An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature, Grand Rapids (Mich.), William B. Eerdmans, 1998
- P.B. Duff, Who Rides the Beast? Prophetic Rivalry and the Rhetoric of Crisis in the Churches of the Apocalypse, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001*
- S.J. Friesen, Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John. Reading Revelation in the Ruins, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001*
- Keller, Apocalypse Now and Then. A Feminist Guide to the End of the World, Boston, Beacon Press, 1996*
- H.O. Maier, Apocalypse Recalled. The Book of Revelation after Christendom, Minneapolis (Minn.), Fortress Press, 2002*
- S.D. Moore, Untold Tales from the Book of Revelation. Sex and Gender, Empire and Ecology, Atlanta, SBL Press, 2014*
- Pippin, Apocalyptic Bodies. The Biblical End of the World in Text and Image, London, Routledge, 1999*
- B.R. Rossing, The Rapture Exposed. The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation, New York, Basic Books, 2004*
- Schüssler Fiorenza, The Book of Revelation. Justice and Judgment, Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1985*

(*) I titoli contrassegnati con l'asterisco sono disponibili, o in corso di acquisizione, per la consultazione e il prestito presso la Biblioteca della Fondazione Collegio San Carlo (lun.-ven. 9-19)

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