Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Through a Glass Darkly: Time, the End, and the Essence of Apocalyptica
- 2 Apocalypticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
- 3 Introduction to the Book of Revelation
- 4 The Gnostic Apocalypses
- 5 Exegeting the Apocalypse with the Donatist Communion
- 6 Tests of Faith, Rebirth out of Corruption, or Endless Cycles of Regeneration: Experiments in the Restoration of the Late Roman Empire
- 7 Latin Reception of the Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages
- 8 Exegesis of the Apocalypse in the Tenth Century
- 9 The End of the World at the Ends of the Earth: Apocalyptic Thought in Medieval Ireland
- 10 Byzantine Apocalyptic Literature
- 11 Joachim of Fiore and the Apocalyptic Revival of the Twelfth Century
- 12 Apocalyptic Sensibility in Renaissance Europe
- 13 “Pride & Vanity of the Imagination, That Disdains to Follow This World’s Fashion”: Apocalypticism in the Age of Reason
- 14 The Formation of Antichrist in Medieval Western Christian Thought
- 15 From Dabiq to Jerusalem: Trajectories of Contemporary Salafi-jihadi Apocalypticism
- 16 American Evangelicals and the Apocalypse
- 17 Apocalypticism in the Contemporary World
- Appendix: Early Medieval Commentaries on the Apocalypse
- Index
- Series page
- References
3 - Introduction to the Book of Revelation
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Through a Glass Darkly: Time, the End, and the Essence of Apocalyptica
- 2 Apocalypticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
- 3 Introduction to the Book of Revelation
- 4 The Gnostic Apocalypses
- 5 Exegeting the Apocalypse with the Donatist Communion
- 6 Tests of Faith, Rebirth out of Corruption, or Endless Cycles of Regeneration: Experiments in the Restoration of the Late Roman Empire
- 7 Latin Reception of the Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages
- 8 Exegesis of the Apocalypse in the Tenth Century
- 9 The End of the World at the Ends of the Earth: Apocalyptic Thought in Medieval Ireland
- 10 Byzantine Apocalyptic Literature
- 11 Joachim of Fiore and the Apocalyptic Revival of the Twelfth Century
- 12 Apocalyptic Sensibility in Renaissance Europe
- 13 “Pride & Vanity of the Imagination, That Disdains to Follow This World’s Fashion”: Apocalypticism in the Age of Reason
- 14 The Formation of Antichrist in Medieval Western Christian Thought
- 15 From Dabiq to Jerusalem: Trajectories of Contemporary Salafi-jihadi Apocalypticism
- 16 American Evangelicals and the Apocalypse
- 17 Apocalypticism in the Contemporary World
- Appendix: Early Medieval Commentaries on the Apocalypse
- Index
- Series page
- References
Summary
The Book of Revelation sits in a distinctive place in the canon of the New Testament, with its relentless succession of apocalyptic imagery—but also sits in a distinctive place within apocalyptic literature as a whole. Making theological sense of it demands both discipline and imagination on the part of the reader, but also mastery of some technical issues (numerology, structure, and its use of imagery) which put it at a cultural distance from the contemporary reader.
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Selected Further Reading
Allen, Garrick, Paul, Ian, and Woodman, Simon, eds. The Book of Revelation: Currents in British Research on the Apocalypse. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2.411. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Aune, David E. Apocalypticism, Prophecy, and Magic in Early Christianity: Collected Essays. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008.Google Scholar
Bauckham, Richard. The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1993.Google Scholar
Beale, G. K. Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text. New International Greek Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999.Google Scholar
Friesen, Steven J. Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Revelation in the Ruins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Howard-Brook, Wes, and Gwyther, Anthony. Unveiling Empire: Reading Revelation Then and Now. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1999.Google Scholar
Koester, Craig R. Revelation: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Leithart, Peter J. Revelation 1–11. International Theological Commentary. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018.Google Scholar
O’Hear, Natasha, and O’Hear, Anthony. Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia. New York: Oxford, 2015.Google Scholar
Paul, Ian. Revelation: An Introduction and Commentary. Tyndale New Testament Commentaries. London: InterVarsity Press, 2018.Google Scholar
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