Revelation /
The book of Revelation is perhaps the most theologically complex and literarily sophisticated -- and also the most sensual -- document in the New Testament. In this commentary John Christopher Thomas's literary and exegetical analysis makes the challenging text of Revelation more accessible and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Grand Rapids :
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.,
2016
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| Series: | Two horizons New Testament commentary.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The Two Horizons New Testament Commentary; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; Structure and Nature of the Book; Literary Markers Recognized by a First-Time Hearer of Revelation; Revelation as Visionary Drama; Revelation as Christian Prophecy; Revelation and the Apocalyptic Tradition; Revelation as Intertext; The Canonical Location and Function of Revelation; Audience; Geographic Location
- Asia Minor; The Johannine Community; OT Literature (Intertextuality); People of the Spirit; Women; Witness and Persecution; Opponents and Opposition.
- Cosmic OppositionConcrete Expressions of Opposition; Date; Internal Indicators; External Evidence; A Modest Proposal with regard to Date; Authorship; John the Prophet; Writing in the Spirit; John the Prophet and the Other Johannine Literature; John in Early Christian Tradition; Revelation and Its Streams of Influence: The History of Effects; Disastrous Interpretations of Revelation; Other Johannine Apocalyptic Documents; Art; Music; Poetry; Film; Commentaries; COMMENTARY; Prologue (1:1-8); "In the Spirit on the Lord's Day" (1:9-3:22); The Inaugural Vision of Jesus (1:9-20).
- The Seven Prophetic Messages to the Seven Churches of Asia (2:1-3:22)To the Angel of the Church in Ephesus (2:1-7); To the Angel of the Church in Smyrna (2:8-11); To the Angel of the Church in Pergamum (2:12-17); To the Angel of the Church in Thyatira (2:18-29); To the Angel of the Church in Sardis (3:1-6); To the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia (3:7-13); To the Angel of the Church in Laodicea (3:14-22); "In the Spirit in Heaven" (4:1-16:21); The Inaugural Vision of Heaven, the One Who Sits on the Throne, the Lamb, and the Scroll Sealed with Seven Seals (4:1-5:14).
- The Opening of the Scroll Sealed with Seven Seals (6:1-8:5)The Opening of the First Six Seals (6:1-17); The Interlude of the 144,000 and the Great Multitude (7:1-17); The Opening of the Seventh Seal and the Golden Altar (8:1-5); Seven Angels with Seven Trumpets (8:6-11:19); The Sounding of the First Six Trumpets (8:6-9:21); The Interlude of the Little Scroll and the Two Witnesses (10:1-11:14); The Sounding of the Seventh Trumpet (11:15-19); The Struggle of God's People in Cosmic Perspective (12:1-14:20); Signs in Heaven: The Woman Clothed with the Sun, and the Red Dragon (12:1-13:1a).
- The Two Beasts (13:1b-18)The Lamb and the 144,000, the Harvest and the Winepress (14:1-20); Seven Angels with Seven Bowls of Plagues (15:1-16:21); Another Great Sign in Heaven: The Seven Angels (15:1-8); The Pouring Out of the Seven Bowls (16:1-21); "In the Spirit"
- Carried to a Wilderness (17:1-21:8); The Woman on the Beast: Babylon the Whore (17:1-18); The Destruction of Babylon (18:1-24); From Babylon the Great to the New Jerusalem
- from the Last Judgment to the New Creation (19:1-21:8); Rejoicing in Heaven and on Earth and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb (19:1-10).
- The King of Kings and Lord of Lords (19:11-16).
