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A Postmodern Revelation : Signs of Astrology and the Apocalypse

Jacques M. Chevalier

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In this new interpretation of the Book of Revelation, Jacques M. Chevalier examines the relationship between astromythology and Western interpretation. While scholars have noted the influence of ancient astromythology in Revelation before, Chevalier shows how John's heavenly imagery is the key to a polemical dialogue between modes of storytelling in Western history: astrology and eschatology, and naturalism and logocentrism. The book also explains how the 'genealogical' concerns of modern academia about the origins of natural and cultural history have supplanted the future-oriented visions of sidereal divination and Christian prophecy.

The first three chapters and epilogue situate Chevalier's biblical analysis in the context of broader interpretations of astrology and the apocalypse developed by Jung, D.H. Lawrence, LTvi-Strauss, Derrida, Foucault, Cassirer, Adorno, Frye, Barthes, and Morin. They also provide the reader with a solid background in the history of astrological belief systems and exegetic readings of Revelation extending from antiquity to the late twentieth century. The remaining chapters are devoted to two questions. First, how does the imagery in Revelation relate to expressions of astromythology? Second, how do twentieth-century readings of Revelation reflect a 'genealogical' perspective on notions of signs, textuality, and destiny?

A Postmodern Revelation is itself an 'apocalypse,' a revelation to scholars interested in sign theory, eschatology, and the history of astrology. The book does far more than interpret the specific biblical text of John's Revelation: it plays with polemics and parallels in the history of Western thought, tracing the history of signs and their meaning from antiquity to a postmodern era that heralds the end of all myths of the End.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Page 8-11

PLATES
Page 12-13

ABBREVIATIONS
Page 14-17

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1 Ends and Flickers of Doubt
Page 18-66

-----Telos, Logos, Genos
Page 19-28

-----The Signum Triceps
Page 29-33

-----Beyond Post-Structuralism
Page 34-49

-----The Postmodern Middle Ages
Page 50-66

2 Music of the Spheres
Page 67-140

-----The Assumptions and Riddles of Primitive Astronomy
Page 67-73

-----The History and Politics of Star-Gods
Page 74-91

-----Jewish Astrology
Page 92-101

-----Astrology and Christianity
Page 102-119

-----From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Page 120-140

3 A History of Revelations
Page 141-189

-----Anagogical Exegeses
Page 144-149

-----Teleological Exegeses: Eschatology and Church History
Page 150-158

-----Genealogical Exegeses
Page 159-178

-----Text, Symbols, and Context
Page 179-189

4 Alpha and Omega
Page 190-211

-----Prologue – The Veiling of Revelation (Rev. 1: 1–3)
Page 190-190

-----The Beginning of the Vision (Rev. 1: 4–20)
Page 191-199

-----Solarism and Circumpolarism
Page 200-202

-----The Crown of Heaven
Page 203-205

-----Bears of the Northern Sky
Page 206-211

5 The Seven Churches of Asia
Page 212-237

-----Ephesus
Page 213-214

-----Smyrna
Page 215-215

-----Pergamum
Page 216-221

-----Thyatira
Page 222-226

-----Sardis
Page 227-228

-----Philadelphia
Page 229-231

-----Laodicea
Page 232-235

-----Beyond the Letter of the Law
Page 236-237

6 The Chariot of Fire
Page 238-278

-----Solarism in Ezekiel
Page 238-262

-----John's Throne-Room Vision (Rev. 4–5)
Page 263-278

7 Seven Seals and Four Trumpets
Page 279-307

-----Six Seals Opened (Rev. 6)
Page 281-289

-----The Lull before the Storm (Rev. 7)
Page 290-292

-----The Seventh Seal and the First Four Trumpets (Rev. 8)
Page 293-303

-----The Forgotten and Reasons to Forget
Page 304-307

8 The Last Three Trumpets
Page 308-341

-----The Fifth and Sixth Trumpets (Rev. 9)
Page 310-319

-----Eating the Small Scroll (Rev. 10)
Page 320-323

-----Scrolls, Scorpions, and Five-Month Spell in Ezekiel (Ezek. 2–7)
Page 324-332

-----The Two Witnesses and the Seventh Trumpet (Rev. 11)
Page 333-338

-----Plans Folding and Unfolding
Page 339-341

9 The Sun-Robed Woman
Page 342-373

-----The Woman and the Dragon
Page 342-349

-----Parallels in Heaven
Page 350-362

-----Arresting the Order of Time
Page 363-367

-----Of Seasons and Sacrifice
Page 368-373

Conclusion: Signs of Logomachy
Page 374-381

Postscript: In the Nearness of Evil
Page 382-393

NOTES
Page 394-403

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Page 404-413

INDEX
Page 414-430

-----A
Page 414-414

-----B
Page 415-415

-----C
Page 416-417

-----D
Page 418-418

-----E
Page 418-418

-----F
Page 419-419

-----G
Page 420-420

-----H
Page 420-420

-----I
Page 421-421

-----J
Page 421-421

-----K
Page 422-422

-----L
Page 422-422

-----M
Page 423-423

-----N
Page 424-424

-----O
Page 425-425

-----P
Page 425-425

-----R
Page 426-426

-----S
Page 427-428

-----T
Page 429-429

-----U
Page 429-429

-----V
Page 430-430

-----W
Page 430-430

-----Z
Page 430-430

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Book Details

Title

A Postmodern Revelation

Subtitle

Signs of Astrology and the Apocalypse

Contributors

Jacques M. Chevalier

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Publication date

1997-01-01

Pages

429

Print ISBN

9780802079763

eBook ISBN

9781442678651

LC Subjects

Bible and astrology.

Audience

Professional and scholarly

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