Other Urban Christians
The Cities in Revelation 1–3
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21453410 |
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| Authors | Jerome H Neyrey (Jerome H. Neyrey, Ph. D. (Yale University) is professor emeritus of the University of Notre Dame. He recently published in Biblical Theology Bulletin, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, and Biblica. His most recent books are An Encomium for Jesus. Luke, Rhetoric, and the Story of Jesus (Sheffield 2020) and By What Authority? Luke Gives Jesus Public Voice (Wipf & Stock, 2021). Currently he is “Writer in Residence” at Jesuit Hall in St. Louis MO 63108.., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 132-148 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biblical Theology Bulletin Journal of Bible and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0146-1079 • E-ISSN: 1945-7596 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01461079211019194 |
| OpenAlex | W3175110592 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
As impressive as is Meeks' First Urban Christians, it studies ancient cities “from above,” i.e., the perspective of elites and their retainers. He does not appreciate the meanness of cities in Asia Minor from the crowded and perilous perspective of the 85% of the population. This absence can be supplied by studies which consider “city” in cultural terms (a system, a central place, a necropolis, etc). These studies alert us to the scarcity of food, water, space, and sanitation. The use of social science models depicts a grim scene in terms of size, population density, and mortality. All of this makes us turn our gaze from the elite parts of a city to the squalid parts where those addressed in the seven letters in Revelation 1–3 dwelt. When those letters are considered in this context, certain materials concerning virtues and vices stand out. Without appreciating where the 85% of the population strove to survive, we cannot appreciate what is said to them
Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Elite · Environmental ethics · Geography · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Population · Revelation · Sanitation · Scarcity · Sociology · Theology · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Demography · Engineering · History · Law · Philosophy
The first urban Christians
The preindustrial city
Twice Neokoros
Man, Settlement and Urbanism
Debating Roman Demography
Slums, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Roman World
Power and Privilege
Honor and shame and the unity of the Mediterranean
Honour and Shame
Human territoriality
Demography
The Rhetorical Situations of Revelation 1–3
Roman Rule in Asia Minor
Human societies
Peasant Society and the Image of Limited Good
| Highly cited | No |
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