This study considers how a significant variable, namely level of literary education (enkuklios paideia), might affect an ancient hearer's interpretation of Revelation 9. This volume focuses on how two hypothetical ancient hearer-constructs, with very different "mental libraries," may interpret the rich cosmological imagery of Revelation 9.

The first, ancient hearer-construct (HC1), the recipient of a minimal literary education, retains a Homeric cosmological model. The second ancient hearer-construct (HC2), by contrast, utilises a tertiary-level knowledge of Aratus and Plato to...

This study considers how a significant variable, namely level of literaryeducation (enkuklios paideia), mightaffect an ancient hearer's interpretation of Revelation 9. This volume focuseson how two hypothetical ancient hearer-constructs, with very different"mental libraries," may interpret the rich cosmological imagery ofRevelation 9.The first, ancient hearer-construct (HC1), the recipient of a minimal literaryeducation, retains a Homeric cosmological model. The second ancient hearer-construct(HC2), by contrast, utilises a tertiary-level knowledge of Aratus and Plato toallegorically...