The way the world ends
Subtitle: the  Apocalypse of John in culture and ideology
By: edited by William John Lyons and Jorunn Økland.
Contributors: Lyons, William John.; Økland, Jorunn.
Series: The Bible in the modern world -- 19; Bible in the modern world -- 19.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sheffield, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781906055431
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- Revelation -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Setting the Scene: The End of the Bible, the End of the World  -- Jorunn Økland; title: Decoding, Reception History, Poetry: Three Hermeneutical Approaches to the Apocalypse  -- Jonathan Roberts; title: Laying Hold of Divine Riches: Self-Authorization in Christina Rossetti's The Face of the Deep (1892)  -- Jo Carruthers; title: Revelation, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: R.L. Stevenson's Strange Case  -- Alison Jack; title: 'Every eye shall see him': Revelation and Film  -- Melanie J. Wright; title: The Apocalypse according to Johnny Cash: Examining the 'Effect' of the Book of Revelation on a Contemporary Apocalyptic Writer  -- William John Lyons; title: The Johannine Apocalypse and the Risk of Knowledge  -- James E. Harding; title: Revelation, Violence, and War: Glimpses of a Dark Side  -- Heikki Räisänen; title: Observations on the Reception of Revelation, c. 1250-1700: Apocalyptic Prophecy as Refractory Lens  -- Anke Holdenried; title: The Plain and Literal Meaning of the Text: A Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptist Perspective on Revelation 20.1-7  -- Simon Woodman; title: 'Be thou faithful unto death' (cf. Rev. 2.10): The Book of Revelation, the Branch Davidians and Apocalyptic (Self-)Destruction?  -- Kenneth Newport; title: Earth Left Behind? Ecological Readings of the Apocalypse of John in Contemporary America  -- Michael S. Northcott; title: Feminists in Search for a Usable Future: Feminist Reception of the Book of Revelation  -- Hanna Stenström; title: The Spectre Revealed and Made Manifest: The Book of Revelation in the Writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels  -- Jorunn Økland; title: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Book of Revelation and Effective History -- Christopher Rowland.