Reading Revelation Responsibly Av Michael J. Gorman

Reading Revelation in Context brings together short, accessible essays by a team of over 20 top scholars that compare and contrast the visions and apocalyptic imagery of the book of Revelation with various texts from Second Temple Jewish literature.

In general, Revelation studies continue to favour going outside or behind the text in search of its context of origin, via the historical-critical paradigm or, more recently, in front of the text to investigate the book''''s reception...