The reality of Apocalypse
Subtitle: rhetoric and politics in the book of Revelation
By: edited by David L. Barr.
Contributors: Barr, David L., 1942-
Series: Society of Biblical Literature symposium series -- no. 39; Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) -- no. 39.
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Atlanta, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781589832183
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- Revelation -- Socio-rhetorical criticism -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Reading the Apocalypse as Apocalypse : the limits of genre / Gregory L. Linton; title: Apocalypse renewed : an intertextual reading of the Apocalypse of John / David E. Aune; title: Beyond genre : the expectations of Apocalypse / David L. Barr; title: Hearing and seeing but not saying : a rhetoric of authority / Jean-Pierre Ruiz; title: 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; title: Sarcasm in Revelation 2-3 : churches, Christians, true Jews, and Satanic synagogues / Steven J. Friesen; title: The "synagogue of Satan" : crisis mongering and the Apocalypse of John / Paul Duff; title: Revelation and empire : symptoms of resistance / Greg Carey; title: Dragon myth and imperial ideology in Revelation 12-13 / Jan Willem van Henten; title: The Lamb who looks like a dragon? : characterizing Jesus in John's Apocalypse / David L. Barra; title: Betwixt and between on the Lord's day : liturgy and the Apocalypse / Jean-Pierre Ruiz; title: The rhetoricity of Revelation and the politics of interpretation / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.