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Graduate Student, Divinity School
Thesis Title: The Rhetoric of Worship: Ekphrasis, Vision, and Persuasion in the Apocalypse to John
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Hans-Josef Klauck
Margaret M. Mitchell Loren Stuckenbruck |
About
My research focusses on the book of Revelation in the context of the ancient hellenistic world and the Judeo-Christian apocalyptic tradition.
I am particularly interested in how Revelation uses sight language and heightens the visual aspect in its descriptions of the divine and scenes of heavenly worship. My dissertation examines the descriptions of the divine through the lens of ancient rhetoric and specifically the tool of ekphrasis asking: what function do the descriptions have in the text? and, how does ekphrasis address issues of divine absence and proper worship?
My previous work on Revelation examined the symbols of evil in the text as examples of the hybrid mythologies in which the author and his ancient hearers engaged.
