John's Use of the Old Testament in Revelation (The Library of New Testament Studies, 166)

Gregory K Beale

ISBN 10: 0567657523 / ISBN 13: 9780567657527

Published by T&T Clark, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: John's Use of the Old Testament in Revelation (The Library of New Testament Studies, 166)
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567657523
• ISBN 13: 9780567657527
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book explores the variety of ways John contextually uses the Old Testament in the Apocalypse. The introduction surveys and evaluates recent studies, which have been divided over the issue of whether or not John uses the Old Testament with sensitivity to its original literary context (Beale, Fekkes and Bauckham argue in the affirmative, while Ruiz and Moyise contend that this was not John's focus and see implications for 'reader-response criticism'). The remainder of the book looks at various ways in which John uses the Old Testament and argues that there is a reciprocal interpretative relationship between the Old Testament and the Apocalypse. Studies of special interest concern the bearing of the Old Testament on Revelation's eschatology, on the issue of the millennium, and on the thorny problem of the grammatical solecisms.

About the Authors

G.K. Beale is Professor of New Testament and Director of the ThM in Biblical Theology Program at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Massachusetts.

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.