Archive for the ‘Criticism’ Category
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Tóth, Franz. Der himmlische Kult: Wirklichkeitskonstruktion und Sinnbildung in der Johannesoffenbarung. Arbeiten zur Bibel und ihrer Geschichte, 22. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2006. xii + 613 pp.A rough translation of the publisher's information: "The readers of Revelation are invited to submerge themselves into a textual world. In this world a cultic ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Moyise, Steve (ed.) Studies in the Book of Revelation. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2001. xvii + 206 pp. ISBN: 0567088146 (hb.), 0567088049 (pbk.).Essays included:The Words of Prophecy: Reading the Apocalypse Theologically, by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (pp. 1-20)Seventh-Day Adventism: Self-Appointed Laodicea, by Robert Surridge (pp. 21-42)The Enthroned Christ of Revelation 5:6 and ...
Posted in Collected essays, Feminist criticism, Imagery, Parousia (Second Advent), Rhetorical studies, Use of the Old Testament | No Comments »
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Barr, David Lawrence (ed.) The Reality of Apocalypse: Rhetoric and Politics in the Book of Revelation. Society of Biblical Literature symposium series, 39. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2006. ix + 306 pp. RRP £19.22Barr, who headed the Seminar on the Apocalypse: The Intersection of Literary and Social Methos, has selected a ...
Posted in Christology, Genre, Hermeneutics, Intertextuality, Liturgy, Resistance criticism, Rhetorical studies | No Comments »
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Smalley, Stephen S. The Revelation to John: A Commentary on the Greek Text of the Apocalypse. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2005. xviii + 633 pp. RRP $65.00According to Smalley, Revelation is a grand drama that must be understood in the light of John's Gospel and letters and in the ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Barr, David L. (ed.) Reading the Book of Revelation: A Resource for Students. Resources for Biblical study, 44. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2004. x + 206 pp. A much cheeper paperback edition (ix + 199 pp.) is published by Society of Biblical Litterature.Publisher's information, including a Table of Contents, is available ...
Posted in Ethics, Hermeneutics, Historical analysis, Literary analysis, Methodology, Postcolonial criticism, Process hermeneutic, Social analysis | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Herms, Ronald. An Apocalypse for the Church and for the World: The Narrative Function of Universal Language in the Book of Revelation. Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche, 143. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006. xv + 299 pp. €88,00.
The Table of ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
The entries marked structure deal with the problem of structure, one of the more controversial, but also important issues as regards the interpretation of Revelation.
This issue has two aspects: First, the question of the textual organisation of Revelation (i.e. its "outline"), and, second, the relationship between the text and the ...
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