In the book of Revelation, the apostle John writes of a world facing a time of reckoning, waiting for Jesus' return, waiting for the Rapture. One obvious question faces the Lord's followers: Are these signs of the times?
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions.
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. ."Due weight is also given to the Christology of the book, which the author sees as inseparable from its eschatology.
Here he introduces the bride in a positive way in order that readers might identify with her instead. Both the bride and the harlot are relational images. The harlot is characterized by license and the bride by marital commitment.
Those people versed in the methods of scholarly interpretation (exegesis) may understand the symbolism of this work, but what about the general reader?
On a bright spring day in Amsterdam a man goes out to buy a packet of cigarettes.
The Rapture Exposed reclaims Christianity from fundamentalists' destructive reading of the biblical story and back into God's beloved community.
Four Views on the Book of Revelation explores four interpretations of the book of the Apocalypse: Preterist – a historical interpretation, arguing that most of John’s prophecies occurred in the first century, soon after his writing of ...
In this book, award winning author Gordon Fee attempts to excavate the layers of symbolic imagery and provide an exposition of Revelation that is clear, easy to follow, convincing, and engaging.
Shows how diverse methods produce divergent readings of a text. Paperback edition available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).