The People of God in the Apocalypse : discourse, structure, and exegesis / Stephen Pattemore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pattemore, Stephen W., author.

Series:

Monograph series (Society for New Testament Studies) ; 128.

Society for New Testament Studies monograph series ; 128

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Revelation--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Relevance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stephen Pattemore examines passages within Revelation 4:1-22:21 that depict the people of God as actors in the apocalyptic drama and infers what impact these passages would have had on the self-understanding and behaviour of the original audience of the work. He uses Relevance Theory, a development in the linguistic field of pragmatics, to help understand the text against the background of allusion to other texts. Three important images are traced. The picture of the souls under the altar (6:9-11) is found to govern much of the direction of the text with its call to faithful witness and willingness for martyrdom. Even the militant image of a messianic army (7:1-8, 14:1-5) urges the audience in precisely the same direction. Both images combine in the final image of the bride, the culmination of challenge and hope traced briefly in the New Jerusalem visions.

Contents:

Question of relevance

Relevance theory in biblical interpretation

Cognitive environment for the Apocalypse

Souls under the altar-a martyr ecclesiology

Companions of the lamb-a messianic ecclesiology

New Jerusalem, bride of the lamb

Summar and conclusions.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-15024-8

1-280-54032-X

0-511-21488-X

0-511-21667-X

0-511-21130-9

0-511-31544-9

0-511-48815-7

0-511-21307-7

OCLC:

560241917