The mystery of the book of Revelation : reenvisioning the end of time /
Cameron Afzal ; with a foreword by April DeConick.
- Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
- 153 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Reading time : a matter of method -- The communal icon -- The experience of time -- Inscribed time -- Apocalypse and prophecy -- The literary genre apocalypse -- The apocalypse as prophecy -- John and his community -- Who was John? -- The occasion for John's prophecy -- A vision of this world in six seals -- The introductory Merkavah vision -- Experienced catastrophe -- The four horsemen : a symbolic year -- The fifth seal : the plight of the faithful -- The sixth seal : the signs of the end -- Sabbath : a new age -- A window in time -- The followers of the Lamb.
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Bible--N.T.--Revelation--Criticism, interpretation, etc.