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The reality of Apocalypse : rhetoric and politics in the book of Revelation / edited by David L. Barr.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 39.Publication details: Atlanta, Ga. : Society of Biblical Literature, c2006.Description: ix, 306 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781589832183 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1589832183 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 228/.06 22
LOC classification:
  • BS2825.52 .R44 2006
Contents:
Reading the Apocalypse as apocalypse : the limits of genre / Gregory L. Linton -- Apocalypse renewed : an intertextual reading of the Apocalypse of John / David E. Aune -- Beyond genre : the expectations of Apocalypse / David L. Barr -- Hearing and seeing but not saying : a rhetoric of authority in Revelation 10:4 and 2 Corinthians 12:4 / Jean-Pierre Ruiz -- To rejoice or not to rejoice? : rhetoric and the fall of Satan in Luke 10:17-24 and Rev. 12:1-17 / Edith M. Humphrey -- Sarcasm in Revelation 2-3 : churches, Christians, true Jews, and satanic synagogues / Steven J. Friesen -- The "synagogue of Satan" : crisis mongering and the Apocalypse of John / Paul Duff -- Symptoms of resistance in the Book of Revelation / Greg Carey -- Dragon myth and imperial ideology in Revelation 12-13 / Jan Willem van Henten -- The Lamb who looks like a dragon? : characterizing Jesus in John's Apocalypse / David L. Barr -- Betwixt and between on the Lord's day : liturgy and the Apocalypse / Jean-Pierre Ruiz -- Babylon the great : a rhetorical-political reading of Revelation 17-18 / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.
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Books Books SAIACS General Stacks Centre for South Asia Research (CSAR) 228.06 B268R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 053142

Includes indexes.

Reading the Apocalypse as apocalypse : the limits of genre / Gregory L. Linton -- Apocalypse renewed : an intertextual reading of the Apocalypse of John / David E. Aune -- Beyond genre : the expectations of Apocalypse / David L. Barr -- Hearing and seeing but not saying : a rhetoric of authority in Revelation 10:4 and 2 Corinthians 12:4 / Jean-Pierre Ruiz -- To rejoice or not to rejoice? : rhetoric and the fall of Satan in Luke 10:17-24 and Rev. 12:1-17 / Edith M. Humphrey -- Sarcasm in Revelation 2-3 : churches, Christians, true Jews, and satanic synagogues / Steven J. Friesen -- The "synagogue of Satan" : crisis mongering and the Apocalypse of John / Paul Duff -- Symptoms of resistance in the Book of Revelation / Greg Carey -- Dragon myth and imperial ideology in Revelation 12-13 / Jan Willem van Henten -- The Lamb who looks like a dragon? : characterizing Jesus in John's Apocalypse / David L. Barr -- Betwixt and between on the Lord's day : liturgy and the Apocalypse / Jean-Pierre Ruiz -- Babylon the great : a rhetorical-political reading of Revelation 17-18 / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.

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