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Book of Revelation

Book of Revelation. Apocalyptic. Book of Revelation What do we have?. Revelation or Revelations ? Visions and/or compositions Reading perspectives. Genre.

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Book of Revelation

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  1. Book of Revelation Apocalyptic

  2. Book of RevelationWhat do we have? • Revelation or Revelations? • Visions and/or compositions • Reading perspectives

  3. Genre “A literary genre consists of a group of texts that exhibit a coherent and recurring pattern of features constituted by the interrelated elements of form, content, and function”(Aune, lxxi).

  4. Revelation as Genre • Letter • Formal framework • Possibly functioned to be read in worship • Mostly deemed of little interpretive importance • Prophecy • Distinction from apocalyptic fuzzy • Call and vision report • Threat and benevolence • Conditional rather than deterministic

  5. Revelation as Apocalyptic Insights and definitions from class

  6. Apocalypsedefinition Apocalypse is a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal, insofar as it envisages eschatological salvation, and spatial, insofar as it involves another, supernatural world . (Semeia 14 [1979] 9; Apocalypse, 4)

  7. Apocalypse form First person prose narrative Episodic structure Revelatory visions Often mediated by supernatural revealer Reached a literary climax Framed by a narrative offering an explanation of surrounding circumstances

  8. Apocalypsecontent Transcendent, eschatological perspective

  9. Apocalypsefunction • Legitimate the authorization of message • Encourage the readers to pursue or modify their thinking and behavior in conformity with transcendent perspectives.

  10. Literary Form of Vision Section • Seven Seals, Seven Trumpets, Seven Bowls ( 4-16) • Two Paired Angelic Revelations frame a middle section (17-22:9)

  11. Structure Seals 1-6 1. Sealing of 144,000 Seventh Seal Trumpets 1-6 2. Angel with little Scroll

  12. Structure The Two Witnesses The seventh Trumpet The woman, child and dragon The beasts from the sea and the land Several visions

  13. Structure

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