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Subject(s)

• Bible Revelation—Criticism, interpretation, etc [Browse]
• Bible Revelation—Relation to the Old Testament [Browse]
• Bible Old Testament—Relation to Revelation [Browse]

Series

Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 166. [More in this series]

Summary note

This book explores the variety of ways John contextually uses the Old Testament in the Apocalypse. The introduction surveys and evaluates recent studies, which have been divided over the issue of whether or not John uses the Old Testament with sensitivity to its original literary context (Beale, Fekkes and Bauckham argue in the affirmative, while Ruiz and Moyise contend that this was not John's focus and see implications for 'reader-response criticism'). The remainder of the book looks at various ways in which John uses the Old Testament and argues that there is a reciprocal interpretative rel

Notes

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages [394]-411) and indexes.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1; Introduction: Recent Discussion and Debate about the Use of the Old Testament in Revelation; CHAPTER 2; The Various Ways John Uses the Old Testament; CHAPTER 3; The Influence of the Old Testament Upon the Eschatology of Revelation; CHAPTER 4; The Influence of the Old Testament Upon the Symbolism of Revelation; CHAPTER 5; The Influence of the Old Testament on the Grammar of Revelation: Solecisms in Revelation as Signals for the Presence of Old Testament Allusions ( Selective Analysis of Revelation 1-22); CHAPTER 6
• The Bearing of the Old Testament on the Interpretation of the Millennium in Revelation 20.1-7Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

ISBN

• 1-283-20681-1
• 9786613206817
• 1-4411-6724-2

OCLC

745866071

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