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An Apocalypse for the Church and for the World: The Narrative Function of Universal Language in the Book of Revelation

An Apocalypse for the Church and for the World: The Narrative Function of Universal Language in the Book of Revelation

Herms, Ronald

Hardcover

Series: Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Für die Neutestamentliche Wissensch, Book 143

JudaismBible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 3110193124
ISBN13: 9783110193121
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Nov 16 2006
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.17
Language: English

This monograph examines the problem of universally inclusive language in the book of Revelation and the resulting narrative tension created by narrowly exclusive language. Analysis is conducted by placing relevant texts within their literary-narrative context and through consideration of how the author understood and appropriated biblical traditions. A key feature of this study is its examination of four early Jewish documents with significant similarities to the problem being examined in Revelation. From these documents (Tobit; Similitudes of Enoch [1 Enoch 37-71]; 4 Ezra; and, Animal Apocalypse [1 Enoch 85-90]) a contextual picture emerges which allows a fuller understanding of Revelation's distinctive approach toward the problem of the fate of the nations. This study contends that the interpretive strategies applied to biblical traditions in Revelation have their roots in the wider early Jewish milieu. From this comparative analysis, identifiable patterns with regard to the role of 'universal terminology' in the communicative strategy of John's Apocalypse emerge.

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