The Reality of the Apocalypse: Rhetoric and Politics in the Book of Revelation

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

DAVID L. BARR (ed.), The Reality of the Apocalypse: Rhetoric and Politics in the Book of Revelation (SBLSymS 39; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006). Pp. ? + 306. Paper $34.95.

The essays in this volume represent the seven-year-long "Seminar on the Apocalypse: The Intersection of Literary and Social Methods" of the SBL annual meeting. Not all of the essays report a date of presentation; those that do come from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Most have been updated to include references to recent scholarship (including the books that grew out of or incorporate ideas from the ...

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