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The Streets of Heaven
The Ideology of Wealth in the Apocalypse of John
By Robert M. Royalty, Jr.
In this book, Royalty shows that opposition to the dominant culture in the Apocalypse is not an attempt to redeem that culture, but rather an attempt to replace it with a Christianized version of the same thing. The powerful combination of the imagery of wealth and its effects on status from Greco-Roman culture expressed in Revelation entangles the text in that culture. The text creates a new culture of power that mimics the dominant ideology-only the names and labels are changed. Revelation replaced Rome with the New Jerusalem and Caesar's court with God's, but the underlying power structures are essentially the same.
Robert M. Royalty, Jr. is a lecturer in Introduction to the Humanities at the Stanford University. He studied at UNC Chapel Hill (bachelor's), and at Yale (MDiv and PhD in religious studies.) He is author also of a commentary on the Greek text of Revelation to be published by Mercer University Press.
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