Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
114,2 (2022) 246-263
Keywords:
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel) In the New Testament
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New Testament. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Blood Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Purity, Ritual New Testament teaching
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Cosmology
Abstract:
This article argues that many of Revelation’s ancient Jewish, Greek, and Roman audience members would have recognized a cosmic blood purification ritual at work in chapters 15–16. I contend first that many early audiences would have perceived the cosmos in Revelation as an operational temple (at least in Rev 4–16). I, then, expose similarities between the bowls of wrath and ancient blood purification rituals for sacred space. In the final section of this article, I demonstrate how many ancient audiences would have understood global pollution to be a major problem for Revelation’s narrative and how the blood purification-like ritual of Rev 15–16 resolves it.
DOI:
10.1515/znw-2023-0014
URL:
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