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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Pattemore, Stephen W. The People of God in the Apocalypse: Discourse, Structure, and Exegesis. Society for New Testament Studies Monographs Series, 128. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Also available in an Ebrary-edition. xv + 256.This volume is based on parts of the author's doctoral dissertation, The People of ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Fekkes, Jan, III. " 'His Bride Has Prepared Herself': Revelation 19-21 and Isaian Nuptial Imagery." Journal of Biblical Literature 109 (1990): 269-87.
One of the important studies of the bride metaphor.
See also McIlraith, Love and Huber, Like a Bride Adorned as well as Fekkes, Isaiah.
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Barr, David Lawrence. "The Apocalypse of John As Oral Enactment." Interpretation 40 (1986): 243-56."The original audience encountered (Apoc) as an aural experience (1:3) and that experience determined both the way the Apoc. was structured and the meaning the auditors found in it."Quoted from Wood, Structure, p. 13 n. 37.
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Dr. Darin M. Wood has written a helpful and well-documented essay on the structure(s) of Revelation (2006).I noticed one or two minor mistakes. Wood ascribes the recapitulation theory to Joachim of Fiore and cites Wainwright, Mysterious Apocalypse, p. 51. However, according to Wainwright (p. 35), the recapitulation theory was used ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Huber, Lynn R. 2007. Like a Bride Adorned: Reading Metaphor in John’s Apocalypse. Emory Studies in Early Christianity. New York: T&T Clark International. xi + 221 pp.The bride metaphor is a powerful one. It has been investigated by McIlraith and Jan Fekkes (and others). Studies like this one are welcome ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
McIlraith, Donal A. The Reciprocal Love Between Christ and the Church in the Apocalypse. Rome: Columban Fathers, 1989.
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Bornkamm, Günther. "Die Komposition der apokalyptischen Visionen in der Offenbarung Johannis." Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 36 (1937): 132-149. Reprinted in Studien zu Antike und Christentum: Gesammelte Aufsätze II, 204-22. Beiträge zur evangelischen Theologie, 28. 3rd ed. München: Chr. Kaiser Verlag, 1970.Bornkamm's article is an important, but, unfortunately, rarely used ...
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