QUANDO OS ESPÍRITOS SAEM DO ABISMO: O ESTABELECIMENTO NARRATIVO DO TERROR ESCATOLÓGICO EM APOCALIPSE 9,1-21

• Autor(a) principal: Terra, Kenner Roger Cazotto
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/342
• topic: Semiosfera; 1 Enoque; Narrativa; Caos; Apocalipse; Semiosphere; 1 Enoc; Narrative; Chaos; Revelation of John; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS

The Apocalypse of John is an intriguing work. Its language filled with violence, fearsome monsters, people crying out for justice, and announcements of death and despair, in a frame of celestial spectacles, fascinates those who like fiction and nourishes hope for those who expect one day to enter the New Jerusalem, where there will be no sea or death, and when the tears will be wiped away. However, the book of Revelation will be read as a narration of reality. In this sense, the text will not be seen as a reflection of any oppression, but as a discursive construction about the system that is for the visionary the denial of order. Based on the concepts of text and cultural memory, in light of I. Lótman, the Russian school of semiotics of culture, and the Assmanns researches, this work shall observe how the memories of fallen and imprisoned celestial beings of Enochic tradition are present in the Judeo-Christian literature and serve to the narrative construction of the eschatological horror scenario in the fifth and sixth trumpets of Revelation 9.1-21. Thus, the thesis defends terror as an instrument of persuasion that helped to describe the visionary context as a chaotic reality in his strategy. Through narrative strategies, the narrator wants to impose his vision so that his interlocutors accept his interpretation of reality and leave the association with Roman life and system, for in doing so they will be compared with sealed and they will receive the same rewards. Hence, his description with eschatological language plays with both the future and the present; it foresees chaos, but lives it in a narrative level. Thus, the book of Revelation, with an extremely radical dualism, does not give space for doubts. The thesis defends, therefore, that the book can be read as a rhetorical instrument of terror and fear that encourages its implied readers not to flirt with Rome, not to accept its discourses or of those associated with it.