First place Quote by Richard Bauckham

“The first is rarely noticed. John’s work is highly unusual in the sheer prolific extent of its visual imagery. It is true that symbolic…

— 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

“Like Jonah’s word, Revelation as prophecy seeks mainly to stimulate faithful response among John’s audience, not to provide an absolute blueprint for an uncertain…

— David A. Desilva

“Revelation is a literary work composed with astonishing care and skill. We should certainly not doubt that John had remarkable visionary experiences, but he…

— Richard Bauckham

“Although most early Christian prophecy was oral, not written, John had plenty of models for a written prophecy, both in the prophetic books of…

— Richard Bauckham

“Theological meaning is thus written into the detail of John’s meticulous literary composition.”

— Richard Bauckham

“It is clear that John saw himself, not only as one of the Christian prophets, but also as standing in the tradition of Old…

— Richard Bauckham

“It seems that John not only writes in the tradition of the Old Testament prophets, but understands himself to be writing at the climax…

— Richard Bauckham

“His task is to proclaim the fulfilment of what God had revealed to the prophets of the past. The whole book is saturated with…

— 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

“John, who was transformed into a passionate lover of God, had lost everything he knew in order to come into that which he did…

— James W. Goll

“If Jesus predicted that the imminent apocalypse would arrive within his own generation, before his disciples had all died, what was one to think…

— Bart D. Ehrman