{"product_id":"9780567710369","title":"The Cosmic Journey in the Book of Revelation : Apocalyptic Cosmology and the Experience of Story-Space (The Library of New Testament Studies)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoel M. Rothman considers the significance of cosmology in biblical and extra-biblical texts, and the role of the cosmic journey in many apocalyptic narratives. He posits that Revelation's narrative likewise takes the hearer on a virtual journey, through a cosmic story-space of great theological significance. While scholarship commonly assumes a three-tiered cosmos in Revelation, Rothman argues that Revelation's narrative operates in a four-tiered cosmos, with the hyper-heaven sitting above the sky-heaven, earth, and abyssal depths; a cosmic story-space that is recreated in the imagination of the hearers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with a methodology of visual narrative reading, Rothman then discusses the assumptions and existing conceptions regarding heaven and earth. He stresses that Revelation does not exhibit tension in its portrayal of heaven — between heaven as a site of conflict and heaven as the realm in which God truly reigns — but rather shows readers a sky-heaven characterised by archetypal conflict between powerful sky-beings and a hyper-heaven defined by full recognition of the Throne. In journeying through the sky-structure and God-space and by analysing the four cosmic layers in operation, the distinct nature of the two sky-spaces, cosmic change and the ideological import of the cosmic structure, Rothman demonstrates that the existence of the hyper-heaven — in contradistinction with the limited lived-cosmos of earth and sky-heaven — is a present guarantee of the final cosmic transformation that creates a new space for human life, exclusive of imperial draconian elements.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"T.\u0026 T.Clark Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45408235356239,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":1398.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9780567710369-1.jpg?v=1784961651","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9780567710369","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}