Scripturalizing Revelation. An African American ​🇺🇸​ Postcolonial Reading 👤📖 of Empire

✅ Dardens reading 👤📖 of Revelation examines John the Seers rhetorical strategy, in general, and ➕ imperial cult imagery in chapters 4️⃣ and ➕ 5️⃣, in particular, through the lens of an African American ​🇺🇸​ scripturalization supplemented by postcolonial theory. The scripturalization proposes that John the Seers signifyin(g) on empire demonstrated that he 👤👨 was well aware of the oppressive nature of Roman imperialism on the lives of provincial Asian Christians ⛪️. This is made 🛠️ evident by his 👤👨⬅️ fierce, non-accommodating stance towards participation in the imperial cult. Yet, ironically, John reinscribed imperial processes and ➕ practices. Johns colonized construction 🏗️ as almost the same but not ❌️ quite like has resulted in the production of a resistance strategy that is a blurred copy of the hegemonic tactics of the Roman Empire. Relating the potential for African American ​🇺🇸​ cooption by the U.S. Empire to the cooption by the Roman Empire both thematized and ➕ performed 🎭️ in Revelation, the book 📚️ argues that African American ​🇺🇸​ biblical scholarship must now attend adequately to these complex cultural negotiations lest it find 🔎 itself inadvertently feeding the imperial beast.

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