The Book of Revelation and the Johannine Apocalyptic Tradition (Journal for the Study of the New Testament Suppliement Series, 190)
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng; grc
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781841270739
Subjects: Biblical concordances & commentaries; Books of the New Testament; N.T.; Bible.; Religion - Biblical Studies; Religion; Revelation; Biblical Studies - General; Biblical Studies - New Testament; Bible - Study - New Testament; Bible; Criticism, interpretation, etc; N.T
Description: This original and unusual book investigates a continuing Johannine apocalyptic tradition, represented in three strange Greek texts that are also linked to a Coptic manuscript. None of the Greek texts has been published in recent years, and they have never been published together or associated in studies of Christian apocrypha. John Court, well known for his studies on Revelation, supplies the text of the Greek manuscripts, with English translations, introductions and detailed explanatory notes that set the texts and their ideas in the context of Christian views on the future and the afterlife.