A Postmodern Revelation : Signs of Astrology and the Apocalypse.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- PLATES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 Ends and Flickers of Doubt -- Telos, Logos, Genos -- Divination versus Prophecy -- Logos and Analogos -- Sublunar Astrology -- Genos -- The Signum Triceps -- Beyond Post-Structuralism -- The Postmodern Middle Ages -- 2 Music of the Spheres -- The Assumptions and Riddles of Primitive Astronomy -- The History and Politics of Star-Gods -- Greek Mythology and Platonism -- The Conversion of Rome (250-44 B.C.E.) -- From Augustus to Domitian (44 B.C.E.-96 C.E.) -- The Later Principate (96-235 C.E.) -- Jewish Astrology -- Astrology and Christianity -- From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance -- 3 A History of Revelations -- Anagogical Exegeses -- Teleological Exegeses: Eschatology and Church History -- Genealogical Exegeses -- Back to the Beginnings -- Contemporary-Historical Analyses -- Literary-Historical and Source Analyses -- Comparative Religious Studies -- Literary Genre and Form Analyses -- Teleology Subsumed -- Anagogy Subsumed -- Text, Symbols, and Context -- 4 Alpha and Omega -- Prologue - The Veiling of Revelation (Rev. 1: 1-3) -- The Beginning of the Vision (Rev. 1: 4-20) -- Solarism and Circumpolarism -- The Crown of Heaven -- Bears of the Northern Sky -- 5 The Seven Churches of Asia -- Ephesus -- Smyrna -- Pergamum -- Thyatira -- Sardis -- Philadelphia -- Laodicea -- Beyond the Letter of the Law -- 6 The Chariot of Fire -- Solarism in Ezekiel -- In the Month of Tammuz (Ezek. 1: 1-3) -- North Wind and Solar Throne (Ezek. 1: 4-5) -- The Image of Jealousy (Ezek. 8) -- The Four Wings of Chronos (Ezek. 1: 6-28) -- On the Darker Side of Light -- Fire from the East (Ezek. 10-11) -- The Flight from Hiddenness -- John's Throne-Room Vision (Rev. 4-5) -- The Lamb and the Lion -- Harp, Altar, and Crown -- Variations on a Heptadic Theme -- Twenty-Four Elders and Four Living Creatures.

Of Silences and Lapses of Memory -- 7 Seven Seals and Four Trumpets -- Six Seals Opened (Rev. 6) -- The Four Riders -- Four Woes Followed by Three -- The Lull before the Storm (Rev. 7) -- The Seventh Seal and the First Four Trumpets (Rev. 8) -- The First Four Trumpets and the Soaring Eagle -- Riddles of Sevenness, Fourness, and Threeness -- The Serpent, the Raven, and the Censer -- The Forgotten and Reasons to Forget -- 8 The Last Three Trumpets -- The Fifth and Sixth Trumpets (Rev. 9) -- Eating the Small Scroll (Rev. 10) -- Scrolls, Scorpions, and Five-Month Spell in Ezekiel (Ezek. 2-7) -- The Two Witnesses and the Seventh Trumpet (Rev. 11) -- Plans Folding and Unfolding -- 9 The Sun-Robed Woman -- The Woman and the Dragon -- Parallels in Heaven -- Arresting the Order of Time -- Of Seasons and Sacrifice -- Conclusion: Signs of Logomachy -- Postscript: In the Nearness of Evil -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Chevalier reveals that the Book of Revelation was written as a polemical response to ancient astromythology and shows that concerns with natural and cultural history have supplanted the future-oriented visions of astrology and Christian prophecy.

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