The mystery of the book of Revelation
Subtitle: reenvisioning the end of time
By: Cameron Afzal ; with a foreword by April DeConick.
Series: Hors serie
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780773451834
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- Revelation -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Reading time : a matter of method; title: The communal icon; title: The experience of time; title: Inscribed time; title: Apocalypse and prophecy; title: The literary genre apocalypse; title: The apocalypse as prophecy; title: John and his community; title: Who was John?; title: The occasion for John's prophecy; title: A vision of this world in six seals; title: The introductory Merkavah vision; title: Experienced catastrophe; title: The four horsemen : a symbolic year; title: The fifth seal : the plight of the faithful; title: The sixth seal : the signs of the end; title: Sabbath : a new age; title: A window in time; title: The followers of the Lamb.