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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barr, David L., 1942-

Series:

Symposium series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; no. 39.

Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Revelation--Socio-rhetorical criticism--Congresses.

Bible.

Bible. Revelation.

Socio-rhetorical criticism of sacred works.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 306 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and indexes.

ISBN:

9004151079

9789004151079

OCLC:

62766052

Publisher Number:

9789004151079