1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461195303321

Autore

Siew Antoninus King Wai

Titolo

The war between the two beasts and the two witnesses [[electronic resource] ] : a chiastic reading of Revelation 11:1-14:5 / / Antoninus King Wai Siew

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : T&T Clark, c2005

ISBN

1-283-19356-6

9786613193568

0-567-13201-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

Library of New Testament studies ; ; 283

Disciplina

228/.066

Soggetti

Christianity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-313) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Editorial Board; Title; Copyright; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 THE LITERARY UNITY OF REVELATION 11.1-14.5; Chapter 3 A LITERARY-STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF REVELATION 11.1-19; Chapter 4 A LITERARY-STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF REVELATION 12.1-14.5; Chapter 5 THE ABCDD'C'B'A' PARALLELS: TESTING THE MACRO-CHIASM; Chapter 6 THE IDENTITY OF THE TWO WITNESSES AND THE TWO BEASTS; Chapter 7 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Siew seeks to examine the events that will unfold within the three and a half years before the dawn of the kingdom of God on earth. He argues that John composed the textual unit of Rev 11:1--14:5 as a coherent and unified literary unit structured in a macro-chiasm. He pays special attention to the fusion of form and content and seeks to elucidate how the concentric and chiastic pattern informs the meaning of the literary units within 11:1--14:5, and proposes that the text of 11:1--14:5 is best analyzed using Hebraic literary conventions, devices, and compositional techniques such as chiasm, pa



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910476831903321

Autore

Hauser Mark W.

Titolo

Mapping Water in Dominica : enslavement and environment under colonialism / / Mark W. Hauser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 249 pages)

Disciplina

306.362

Soggetti

Slavery

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/ 9780295748733 Dominica, a place once described as "Nature's Island," was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves. Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial pieces of Dominica's colonial history that have been omitted from official documents. The archaeological record-which preserves traces of slave households, waterways, boiling houses, mills, and vessels for storing water-reveals changes in political authority and in how social relations were mediated through the environment. Plantation monoculture, which depended on both slavery and an abundant supply of water, worked through the environment to create predicaments around scarcity, mobility, and belonging whose resolution was a matter of life and death. In following the vestiges of these struggles, this investigation documents a valuable example of an environmental challenge centered around insufficient water. Mapping Water in Dominica is available in an open access edition through the



Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Northwestern University Libraries"-- Provided by publisher.