Un procédé de composition négligé de l’Apocalypse de Jean : repérage, caractéristiques et cas témoin d’une approche parodique

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Today, the Book of Revelation is generally taken to be the complex narrative unity which E.-B Allo argued it was in 1933. Allo recognised that one compositional factor contributing to this unity is the extensive use made of carefully worked antithetical parallelism, what Jürgen Roloff in 1987 called a parody approach. Both Allo and Roloff, however, underestimated the scope and significance of the phenomenon, and scholarship has never advanced very far along the track they proposed. Based on an in-depth study of the literary deployment of extensive parodie materials in the text, this article goes on to provide a synthesis delineating the various traits which characterise parody in Revelation and, as a control, conducts a sample exegesis of Rev. 13/1 -14/5 (studied in mutual relation to other related textual data in the book), a segment in which these features find a particularly clear illustration. Finally, as an extension of the trajectory followed here, certain foreseeable directions

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