LEADER 04396nam 2200709 450 001 9910819493403321 005 20230912151911.0 010 $a1-281-99766-8 010 $a9786611997663 010 $a1-4426-7865-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442678651 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004289 035 $a(OCoLC)244768745 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10219172 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000306549 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11274900 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000306549 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10297665 035 $a(PQKB)11507343 035 $a(CaPaEBR)420819 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00604306 035 $a(DE-B1597)464763 035 $a(OCoLC)944177728 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442678651 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671845 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257535 035 $a(OCoLC)958572115 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/qp75zb 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/7/420819 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671845 035 $a(OCoLC)1390189297 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105109 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255265 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004289 100 $a20160923h19971997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA postmodern revelation $esigns of astrology and the Apocalypse /$fJacques M. Chevalier 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1997. 210 4$dİ1997 215 $a1 online resource (430 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-7976-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPlates --$tAbbreviations --$t1. Ends and Flickers of Doubt --$t2. Music of the Spheres --$t3. A History of Revelations --$t4. Alpha and Omega --$t5. The Seven Churches of Asia --$t6. The Chariot of Fire --$t7. Seven Seals and Four Trumpets --$t8. The Last Three Trumpets --$t9. The Sun-Robed Woman --$tConclusion: Signs of Logomachy --$tPostscript: In the Nearness of Evil --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn this new interpretation of the Book of Revelation, Jacques M. Chevalier examines the relationship between astromythology and Western interpretation. While scholars have noted the influence of ancient astromythology in Revelation before, Chevalier shows how John's heavenly imagery is the key to a polemical dialogue between modes of storytelling in Western history: astrology and eschatology, and naturalism and logocentrism. The book also explains how the 'genealogical' concerns of modern academia about the origins of natural and cultural history have supplanted the future-oriented visions of sidereal divination and Christian prophecy. The first three chapters and epilogue situate Chevalier's biblical analysis in the context of broader interpretations of astrology and the apocalypse developed by Jung, D.H. Lawrence, LTvi-Strauss, Derrida, Foucault, Cassirer, Adorno, Frye, Barthes, and Morin. They also provide the reader with a solid background in the history of astrological belief systems and exegetic readings of Revelation extending from antiquity to the late twentieth century. The remaining chapters are devoted to two questions. First, how does the imagery in Revelation relate to expressions of astromythology? Second, how do twentieth-century readings of Revelation reflect a 'genealogical' perspective on notions of signs, textuality, and destiny?A Postmodern Revelation is itself an 'apocalypse, ' a revelation to scholars interested in sign theory, eschatology, and the history of astrology. The book does far more than interpret the specific biblical text of John's Revelation: it plays with polemics and parallels in the history of Western thought, tracing the history of signs and their meaning from antiquity to a postmodern era that heralds the end of all myths of the End. 606 $aBible and astrology 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBible and astrology. 676 $a228/.068 700 $aChevalier$b Jacques M.$f1949-$0877586 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819493403321 996 $aA postmodern revelation$94041984 997 $aUNINA