Parables of War Reading Johns by Marshall, John W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Parables of War: Reading John's Jewish Apocalypse CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 2 APORIAS: PASSAGES WITHOUT PASSAGE

1. The Synagogue of Satan 2. Keeping the Commandments 3. 144,000 from Israel or on Zion 4. The Holy City and the Great City

3 MEANINGS: NAMES AND PATHS

1. Paths of Suspicion 2. Signification and Reference

4 TERMS: THE SUPPLEMENT AND/OR THE COMPLEMENT

1. The Problem 2. The Possibility of a Supplement 3. The Practice of a Complement 4. Conflicted Functioning

5 TAXONOMY: THE SINE QUA NON OF CHRISTIANITY?

6 NARRATIVES: JOHN('S) BECOMES A CHRISTIAN (DOCUMENT)

1. The Great Collective Story 2. Ignatius? Paul? Jesus? Adam? 3. The Difference

7 NAMES: CHOOSING CATEGORIES

1. Christian, Christianity (χριστιανός, χριστιανισμός) 2. Christ (Χριστός) 3. Judaism, Jewish, Jew (Ἰουδαϊσμός, Ἰουδαῖος) 4. Assembly (Ἐκκλεσία) 5. Gathering (Συναγωγή)

8 DATE: THAT LONG YEAR

1. The Role of "Sources" 2. The Seven Kings of the Seven Mountains 3. The Name "Babylon" 4. The Number of the Beast 5. Testimonies 6. Historical Circumstances 7. The Two Witnesses

9 LOCATION: DIASPORA IN WAR

1. Josephus's Diaspora

1.1 Help from "Beyond the Euphrates" 1.2 Agrippa's Warning 1.3 Conflict in Caesarea and Chaos in Syria 1.4 Strife in the Wide World 1.5 The Aftermath in Africa and Antioch

2. The Long Year 3. Other Wars, Other Diasporas

3.1 The Syrian Wars 3.2 Greek Diaspora in Italy 3.3 The Mithridatic Wars 3.4 Scythians in Greece

10 PARABLES I: STANDING FAST AMONG THE NATIONS

1. The Not-Jews and the Synagogue of Satan

1.1 Balaam, Jezebel, and the Nicolaitans 1.2 The Adversary and John's Adversaries 1.3 Naming the Synagogue of Satan

2. Those Who Keep the Commandments

2.1 Chasing the Queen of Heaven 2.2 The Beasts Run Amok 2.3 The Warriors' Secret Chorus 2.4 ἐντολή and νομός and Jesus in the Dock

11 PARABLES II: DEFENDING THE HOLY CITY

1. The 144.000 from Israel or on Zion

1.1 Allies in the Source Critics 1.2 Clean from Women 1.3 Priests in the Temple, Warriors in Wartime

2. The Great City and the Holy City

2.1 Sources and Critics 2.2 Measuring the Temple 2.3 Two Witnesses Before the Lord of the Earth 2.4 Literal and Spiritual Geography: Sodom, Egypt, and Babylon

12 RESULTS: JUDAISM IN ASIA AND DEVOTION TO JESUS

1. The Persuasive Apocalypse

1.1 Tie Structure of the Apocalypse 1.2 Problems and Responses 1.3 Parties in Conflict, Shuffling Categories 1.4 Other Elements of John's Program

2. The Apocalypse of John and Other Jesus Literature

2.1 Paul's Anxiety over Gentiles 2.2 The Gospels' Anxieties with(in) Judaism

3. The Apocalypse of John in Asian Judaism of the Second Temple Period

3.1 Living in Asia 3.2 Money and Cult

EPILOGUE Bibliography

Primary Sources Secondary Sources

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