Judaism Quote by Richard Bauckham

“A second formal, literary difference between Revelation and the Jewish apocalypses is that, unlike the latter, Revelation is not pseudepigraphal.”

— Richard Bauckham

“We may still ask in what sense Revelation belongs to the genre of ancient religious literature we call the apocalypse. J. J. Collins defines…

— Richard Bauckham

“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…

— Richard Bauckham

“We have sought to read Revelation less as a coded text to be interpreted, and more as a text that imposed a Christ-centered interpretation…

— David A. Desilva

“Thus Revelation seems to be an apocalyptic prophecy in the form of a circular letter to seven churches in the Roman province of Asia.”

— Richard Bauckham

“contends that these testimonies already alleged cannot be understood allegorically of celestial blessings, but that they shall have their fulfilment after the coming of…

— The Church Fathers

We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among…

— D. H. Lawrence

The Book of Reveal-ation in the Bible predicts an unveiling of great truth and unimaginable wisdom. The Apocalypse is not the end of the…

— Dan Brown

The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it…

— H. L. Mencken

“Thus apocalypses set an audience’s space within the context of a larger, invisible world, and they set the audience’s time in the context of…

— David A. Desilva

“As I understand the christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have…

— John Adams