Honor Discourse and the Rhetorical Strategy of the Apocalypse of John

deSilva, David A.

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“…Indeed, many terms in both Hebrew and Greek carry strong honor or shame connotations and denotations, yet for various reasons, English translations often fail to render them appropriately. These include but are certainly not limited to doxa (honor, reputation), makarios (how honorable), ouai (how shameful), philotimos (ambitious love of honor), kalos (noble, honorable), and the elengchos semantic domain (bring to conviction through shame) (deSilva, 2009; Flanders, 2020; Hanson, 1994). Though a person who was an avid reader of the Bible and equipped with a degree in biblical studies, these connotations, which had for the most part simply escaped me, now began to become clearer.…”

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“…I was a convinced convert and recalibrated my own biblical, theological, and cultural orientations. This was later augmented by the indispensable work of New Testament scholar David deSilva (1995, 1999, 2009), which continued to deepen and extend this missiological transformation. Honor and shame were clearly critical to understanding “honor–shame cultures,” whether that of contemporary Thailand or the ancient cultures of the biblical authors.…”

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About-face transformation: Learning to embrace honor, shame, and face

Flanders

2023

Missiology

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Recent theology, biblical studies, and missiology have increasingly focused discussions on issues involving honor, face, and shame. These studies often highlight how traditional western perspectives on the self, social honor, and emotions of self-assessment (i.e., pride, guilt, shame) differ from those in the Majority World. A critical piece of effective engagement with such issues involves a change in orientation regarding these common attitudes and understandings. This article outlines some of the significant issues involved in a personal journey of such an about-face transformation and provides key suggestions that can enable willing participants to undergo a similar type of change.

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About-face transformation: Learning to embrace honor, shame, and face

Flanders

2023

Missiology

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“… 36. DeSilva (1998: 104) also notes that ‘the most extreme experience of society’s disapproval and censure, namely execution, is pronounced a mark of honour within the community and before the court of God’. …”

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Rest and Victory in Revelation 14.13

Lee

2019

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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Most commentators suggest that ‘rest from toil’ in Rev. 14.13 refers to relief from the enduring hardships of persecution. Based on the cultural and narrative contexts of the book of Revelation, it is argued in this study that this ‘rest’ reﬂects two Jewish traditions: (1) rest from work and (2) rest from enemies. It also proposes that ‘rest from toil’ also carries a strong connotation of victory over persecutors – a reading with important implications for understanding John’s rhetorical strategy of increasing the motivation for his readers/hearers to remain faithful to Christ, even when facing death.

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“…These characteristics create a virtual reality, animating a commitment to faithful actions as an important effect of arising emotions (COLLINS, 1984, p. 141-156). Such symbolic narratives, as well as the inherited apocalyptic conventions, intensify fear and resentment toward Roman imperial domination, and Christian piety toward divine honor (DESILVA, 1998). Indeed, text and context are continuously interchanging; assuming this indisputable theoretical consideration, scholars investigate Apocalypse's language in their performative, polyssemic, ideological and political peculiarities (FIORENzA, 1998, p. 211-215).…”

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Rhetorical Textures of Mystery in the Johannine Apocalypse: Transformative Communitarian Performances Through Revelations, Metaphors and Symbols

Assis¹

2016

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Unveiling Revelation is not possible. While uncovering hidden symbolic messages associated with historical realities is unachievable, ancient and current readers are able to engage these symbolic layers, illuminating preterit and present speeches in their specific social loci. By discussing internal and external evidences of a collective composition through literary receptions of the Apocalypse of John, this essay asserts that a Transfiguring Church emulates itself through transgressive, symbolic language. By investigating the conceptualization of masculinity based on descriptions of ancient heroes in the imperial era, this article identifies rhetorical elements through a perfomative use of sexuality on Rev. 19:11-21. By arguing that economic and imperial civil religious ceremonies denote political domination, this study describes rhetorical, magical elements in symbolic characterizations of the Beasts and the dragon in Revelation. Therefore, the focus of this writing is the texture of language in some symbolic constructions distributed in the Johannine Apocalypse.

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Honor Discourse and the Rhetorical Strategy of the Apocalypse of John

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About-face transformation: Learning to embrace honor, shame, and face

About-face transformation: Learning to embrace honor, shame, and face

Rest and Victory in Revelation 14.13

Rhetorical Textures of Mystery in the Johannine Apocalypse: Transformative Communitarian Performances Through Revelations, Metaphors and Symbols

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