Barr (ed.), Reality of Apocalypse

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 £19.22

Barr, who headed the Seminar on the Apocalypse: The Intersection of Literary and Social Methos, has selected a number of essays to represent the work of the seminar. Barr also edited a volume for students.

Essays included

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