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The reality of Apocalypse : rhetoric and politics in the book of Revelation / edited by David L. Barr. - Atlanta, Ga. : Society of Biblical Literature, c2006. - ix, 306 p. ; 23 cm. - Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 39 . - Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 39. .

Includes indexes.

Reading the Apocalypse as Apocalypse : the limits of genre / Gregory L. Linton -- Apocalypse renewed : an intertextual reading of the Apocalypse of John / David E. Aune -- Beyond genre : the expectations of Apocalypse / David L. Barr -- Hearing and seeing but not saying : a rhetoric of authority / Jean-Pierre Ruiz -- To rejoice or not to rejoice? : rhetoric and the fall of Satan in Luke 10:17-24 and Rev. 12:1-17 / Edith M. Humphrey -- Sarcasm in Revelation 2-3 : churches, Christians, true Jews, and Satanic synagogues / Steven J. Friesen -- The "synagogue of Satan" : crisis mongering and the Apocalypse of John / Paul Duff -- Revelation and empire : symptoms of resistance / Greg Carey -- Dragon myth and imperial ideology in Revelation 12-13 / Jan Willem van Henten -- The Lamb who looks like a dragon? : characterizing Jesus in John's Apocalypse / David L. Barra -- Betwixt and between on the Lord's day : liturgy and the Apocalypse / Jean-Pierre Ruiz -- The rhetoricity of Revelation and the politics of interpretation / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.

ISBN: 9781589832183 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1589832183 (pbk : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2005036839

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Bible.--Revelation--Socio-rhetorical criticism--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: BS 2825.52 / .R44 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 228/.06