Grasping for Power from the Tree of Life: A Visual Reading of Revelation 22
Author:   Amy E. Meverden
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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9781978709393


Pages:   202
Publication Date:   11 December 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Grasping for Power from the Tree of Life: A Visual Reading of Revelation 22


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Author:   Amy E. Meverden
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781978709393


ISBN 10:   1978709390
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   11 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. Engaging Images and Texts: Intertextuality, Visual Exegesis, and Metonymy 2. The Eternal Acanthus of the Ara Pacis Augustae 3. The Imperial Logic of the Ashurbanipal Garden Relief 4. Metonymy, Kingship, and the Tree of Life in Genesis 2–3 5. Metonymy, Kingship, and the Tree of Life in Revelation 22 Conclusion: Acanthus, the Cross, and the Tree of Life Bibliography Index About the Author

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""A world-healing Tree of Life opens and closes the book of Revelation, drawing on Genesis. Amy Meverden brilliantly shows how this subversive tree functions as an anti-imperial symbol, critiquing the Roman empire's propaganda of eternity as imaged in the viney tendrils of Rome's acanthus plant. Meverden's scholarship on comparative visual imagery and dueling trees in the ancient world convincingly argues that the biblical Tree of Life gives radical hope, justice, and life for all. I love this book!"" --Barbara Rossing, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago


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Amy Meverden is visiting assistant professor of New Testament at the Union Theological Seminary, New York.

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