“if we try to read it as prediction of how that judgment will occur we turn it into a confused muddle and… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“we must try to do justice to the three categories of literature – apocalypse, prophecy and letter – into which Revelation seems to fall.” — Richard Bauckham Books Copy Share Image
“A second formal, literary difference between Revelation and the Jewish apocalypses is that, unlike the latter, Revelation is not pseudepigraphal.” — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“Said the trees to the bramble, 'Come, be our ruler!' 'Wait!' said the mustard.” — Richard Bauckham Advent Copy Share Image
“Misinterpretations of Revelation often begin by misconceiving the kind of book it is.” — Richard Bauckham Books Copy Share Image
“As well as their pervasive allusion to the Old Testament, the images of Revelation also echo mythological images from its contemporary world.” — Richard Bauckham Old testament 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… — Richard Bauckham First place Copy Share Image
“It is clear that John saw himself, not only as one of the Christian prophets, but also as standing in the tradition… — Richard Bauckham Bible Copy Share Image
“Secondly, as we have already noticed, Revelation is saturated with verbal allusions to the Old Testament. These are not incidental but essential… — Richard Bauckham Old testament Copy Share Image
“A second important sense in which Revelation stands in the tradition of the Jewish apocalypses is that it shares the question which… — Richard Bauckham Judaism Copy Share Image
“False worship, such as John portrays in the worship of the beast, is false precisely because its object is not the transcendent… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“The point is not to predict a sequence of events. The point is to evoke and to explore the meaning of the… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“Although most early Christian prophecy was oral, not written, John had plenty of models for a written prophecy, both in the prophetic… — Richard Bauckham Books Copy Share Image
“The first is rarely noticed. John’s work is highly unusual in the sheer prolific extent of its visual imagery. It is true… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“Perhaps enough has been said to indicate that the imagery of Revelation requires close and appropriate study if modern readers are to… — Richard Bauckham Books Copy Share Image
“[Jesus'] resurrection is therefore God's promise of new creation for the whole of the godforsaken reality which the crucified Jesus represents. It… — Richard Bauckham Hope Copy Share Image
“The whole book of Revelation is a circular letter addressed to seven specific churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea (1:11;… — Richard Bauckham Book of revelation Copy Share Image
“The whole of Revelation could be regarded as a vision of the fulfilment of the first three petitions of the Lord’s Prayer:… — Richard Bauckham Books Copy Share Image
“The method and conceptuality of the theology of Revelation are relatively different from the rest of the New Testament, but once they… — Richard Bauckham Christianity Copy Share Image
“His task is to proclaim the fulfilment of what God had revealed to the prophets of the past. The whole book is… — Richard Bauckham Old testament Copy Share Image
“It seems that John not only writes in the tradition of the Old Testament prophets, but understands himself to be writing at… — Richard Bauckham Bible Copy Share Image
“The range of different situations in these seven churches is sufficient for any Christian church in the late first century to find… — Richard Bauckham Books Copy Share Image
“The device of the seven messages enables John to engage appropriately with seven different contexts in which his book would be read… — Richard Bauckham Christianity Copy Share Image
“Once we have fully recognized the specificity of the seven messages to the churches, it is possible to ask whether John also… — Richard Bauckham Christian church Copy Share Image
“Thus it would be a serious mistake to understand the images of Revelation as timeless symbols. Their character conforms to the contextuality… — Richard Bauckham Failure Copy Share Image
“The heavenly revelation he receives concerns God’s activity in history to achieve his eschatological purpose for the world. In other words, John’s… — Richard Bauckham History Copy Share Image
“The extent and character of the continuity and the differences between prophecy and apocalyptic are highly debatable. But the distinction means that… — Richard Bauckham Old testament Copy Share Image
“Revelation is a literary work composed with astonishing care and skill. We should certainly not doubt that John had remarkable visionary experiences,… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“The Old Testament allusions frequently presuppose their Old Testament context and a range of connexions between Old Testament texts which are not… — Richard Bauckham Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
“We may still ask in what sense Revelation belongs to the genre of ancient religious literature we call the apocalypse. J. J.… — Richard Bauckham Literature Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“The fact that John explicitly and carefully contextualizes his prophetic message in seven specific contexts makes it possible for us to resist… — Richard Bauckham Christianity Copy Share Image
“Thus Revelation seems to be an apocalyptic prophecy in the form of a circular letter to seven churches in the Roman province… — Richard Bauckham Revelation Copy Share Image
“Theological meaning is thus written into the detail of John’s meticulous literary composition.” — Richard Bauckham Theological Copy Share Image
“the images of Revelation are symbols with evocative power inviting imaginative participation in the book’s symbolic world. But they do not work… — Richard Bauckham Books Copy Share Image
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