This volume represents the diverse range of research interests in the Book of Revelation operative in current British research, examining questions of genre, structure, composition, scriptural reuse, exegesis, thematic issues, and reception history.
This volume represents the diverse range of research interests in the Book of Revelation operative in current British research, examining questions of genre, structure, composition, scriptural reuse, exegesis, thematic issues, and reception history. This collection, from a distinguished and diverse group of senior and junior scholars, is accessible to a broad range of readers, and is relevant for a number of critical conversations pertaining not only to the Apocalypse, but also to broader avenues of discourse in New Testament and Early Christian studies.
Table of contents:
Garrick V. Allen: Introducing
The Book of Revelation: Currents in British Research on the Apocalypse
Text, Structure, and Persuasion
Garrick V. Allen: Reusing Scripture in the Book of Revelation: Techniques of Reuse and Habits of Reading -
Andrew Harker: Prophetically Called Sodom and Egypt: The Affective Power of Revelation 11.1-13 -
Ian Paul: Source, Structure, and Composition in the Book of Revelation
Context, Interpretation, and Genre
Richard Bauckham: Judgment in the Book of Revelation -
Sarah Underwood Dixon: 'The Testimony of Jesus' in Light of Internal Self-References in the Books of Daniel and 1 Enoch -
Sean Michael Ryan: 'The Testimony of Jesus' and 'The Testimony of Enoch': An
emic Approach to the Genre of the Apocalypse -
Michelle Fletcher: Apocalypse Noir: How Revelation Defined and Defied a Genre -
Ronald Herms: πνευματικῶς and Antagonists in Revelation 11 Reconsidered -
W. Gordon Campbell: Facing Fire and Fury: One Reading of Revelation's Violence in the Context of Recent Interpretation -
Simon P. Woodman: Fire from Heaven: Divine Judgment in the Book of Revelation -
Paul Middleton: Male Virgins, Male Martyrs, Male Brides: A Reconsideration of the 144,000 'who have not dirtied themselves with women' (Revelation 14.4) -
Shane J. Wood: God's Triumphal Procession: Re-examining the Release of Satan in the Light of Roman Imperial Imagery.
Reception
Christopher Rowland: British Interpretation of the Apocalypse: A Historical Perspective -
Ian Boxall: The Mighty Angel and the Little Scroll: A Reception-Historical Study of Revelation 10 -
Jonathan Downing: The Women Clothed in the Sun: The Reception of Revelation 12 among Female British Prophets 1780-1814
Afterword
Steve Moyise: A Response to Currents in British Research on the Apocalypse
