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The book of Revelation is a disorienting work, full of beasts, heavenly journeys, holy war, the End of the Age, and the New Jerusalem. What are we to make of this work?
Manuscripts of the Book of Revelation argues that one way to understand the strange history of Revelation and its challenging texts is to go back to its manuscripts.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface
- Note to Readers
- 1: Embodied Reading and Apocalyptic Books: Why Manuscripts Matter
- 2: The Titles of the Apocalypse as Paratexts
- 3: The Machinery of the Andrew of Caesarea Tradition
- 4: Monks, Manuscripts, Muhammad, and Digital Editions of the New Testament
- 5: The Sociology of the Book of Revelation in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Books and Canon
- 6: The Future of the Apocalypse and the Apocalypse of the Future: Conclusions and Prospects
- Bibliography
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Garrick V. Allen (Phd 2015, St Andrews) is Assistant Professor in New Testament Studies at Dublin City University. His book The Book of Revelation and Early Jewish Textual Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2017) was awarded the 2019 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise and he has written many articles on the book of Revelation and manuscripts of the New Testament. He is also the recipient of the 2019 Paul J. Achtemeier Award for New Testament Scholarship awarded by the Society of Biblical Literature.
Zusammenfassung
The book of Revelation is a disorienting work, full of beasts, heavenly journeys, holy war, the End of the Age, and the New Jerusalem. What are we to make of this work? Manuscripts of the Book of Revelation argues that one way to understand the strange history of Revelation and its challenging texts is to go back to its manuscripts.
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