Full Description
This is a specially commissioned series of state-of-the-art studies on the most important aspects of Revelation and its significance for the 21st century. The studies can be grouped in relation to three main themes: first, strategies of interpretation (theological, literary, feminist, metaphorical); second, the nature of the violent imagery; third, passages of particular interest (the letter to Laodicea, "praise and politics" Old Testament allusions, the second coming of Christ).
Contents
The words of prophecy - reading the apocalypse theologically, Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza; seventh day adversion - self-appointed Laodicea, Robert Surridge; the enthroned Christ of Revelation 5:6 and the development of Christian theology, Jonathan Knight; the many faces of Babylon the Great - Wirkungsgeschichte and the interpretation of revelation 17, Ian Boxall; praise and politics in Revelation 19.1-10, Jean Pierre Ruiz; the millennium and the second coming, R. Jack McKelvey; waiting for the end that never comes - the narrative logic of John's story, David Barr; criteria and the assessment of allusions to the Old Testament in the Book of Revelation, John Paulien; the Book of Revelation - image, symbol and metaphor, Ian Paul; out of the wilderness - feminist perspectives on the Book of Revelation, Alison Jack; the apocalypse and its ambiguous ethos, Greg Carey; does the lion lie down with the lamb?, Steve Moyise.
