a gender analysis revelation the other is written by you and one of unc's uh graduate students um uh chris freylings who was my student who wrote a fantastic book on that's published on uh on the book of revelation uh that's called spectacles of empire uh where he does a gendered analysis of it spectacles of empire he was one of our truly brilliant students who teaches now at michigan state uh uh todd i'll take one more question and then i'll uh give it uh then i'll say a final word great um this is a question about genre and what you said at the beginning of the talk that to understand this book you really need to be familiar with the genre of of the of apocalypses and the question is about the kind of boundaries of that genre um and so for example the question the the attendee asks you know could we think of dante's inferno as an apocalypse what are the boundaries of this show right again it's a much disputed question um and uh scholars have spent a lot of time talking about in their variety of views about it what scholars ended up doing uh the consensus view about this is that the way you establish any kind of genre is you just read a bunch of books that you know you read a bunch of short stories and you figure out what they've got in common and they say okay that's what a short story is you know when you read a bunch of novels and you realize they're different they're and so you do that with the apocalypse and so there there are various criteria people have and i gave some of them the first person narratives about visions that are either of the other world or of the future usually pseudonymous that have lots of repetition uh in them uh that that go from disaster to triumph where the good ends of triumphing in the end and so there's a whole series of things that involve both content and form that uh that people use to apply to this and by those criteria dante's a divine comedy obviously it has it has a lot of similarities because it's a visit it's a visit uh to the realms of the dead but it's not it wouldn't pass muster by these stricter definitions what kind of criteria you would need let me let me uh so those are all the questions i'm going to be able to take let me say just uh two things first before the main thing is if you if you did if you enjoyed this um actually three things if you enjoyed if you enjoy this kind of talk if you enjoy this kind of stuff about early christianity and the new testament i do want you to know about my blog just look up bart urban blog i talk about this kind of stuff all the time i post five times a week and i answer everybody's questions i ever get on this blog so if you have questions you can come on the blog so just look up the bart ehrman blog and you can see uh you can see what that's all about second thing is if you enjoy this kind of talk about religion religious studies uh are you
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN let me let me uh so those are all the questions i'm going to be able to take let me say just uh two things first before the main thing is if you if you did if you enjoyed this um actually three things if you enjoyed if you enjoy this kind of talk if you enjoy this kind of stuff about early christianity and the new testament i do want you to know about my blog just look up bart urban blog i talk about this kind of stuff all the time i post five times a week and i answer everybody's questions i ever get on this blog so if you have questions you can come on the blog so just look up the bart ehrman blog and you can see uh you can see what that's all about second thing is if you enjoy this kind of talk about religion religious studies uh are you END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN