“The heavenly revelation he receives concerns God’s activity in history to achieve his eschatological purpose for the world. In other words, John’s concerns are exclusively prophetic. He uses the apocalyptic genre as a vehicle of prophecy, as not all Jewish… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“In the first place, John’s work is a prophetic apocalypse in that it communicates a disclosure of a transcendent perspective on this world.” — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
