The focus of this dissertation is to investigate whether the ancient motif of Divine Warrior imagery can aid in understanding the violent imagery in the book of Revelation. The specific strategy is to examine how John's intended readers would perceive the violent imagery in ligh…
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Recent research into the Apocalypse of John has made it clear that John did not primarily write the Apocalypse in order to provide a detailed time-table of events that would unfold thousands of years in the future. Instead, John wrote to affect and move his hearers at the end of…
This dissertation seeks to establish the Christian, rather than the Jewish, character of the Apocalyptic visions by utilizing a historical-exegetical analysis of [special characters omitted], the Lamb figure, in the core Lamb passages. Chapter one discusses the socio-historical …
One of the keys to understanding the book of Revelation is recognizing John's dependence on and his transformation of the Old Testament. Several studies have focused on various Old Testament sources and their impact on Revelation, but no investigation has been made of John's use…
This study observes in the book of Revelation the motif of a Great City which was variously characterized as Sodom, Egypt, and Babylon. It sets out to determine the significance of this characterization by tracing the Sodom, Egypt, and Babylon traditions in the OT, the NT, and t…
The dissertation subject is the literary uses of memory and apocalyptic imagination in works of 19th and 20th century African-American literature. These writers become apocalyptists or “New Johns” whose imperative, like John of Patmos, is to “write the things which [they have] s…
Recent work on the use of the OT in Revelation demonstrates that the OT provides the primary conceptual background to that book. Past scholarship on the Christology of Revelation is inadequate because it fails to pay sufficient attention to the OT allusions in John's Christologi…
The phrase “like a bride adorned” is one of the ways Revelation describes the new Jerusalem which descends from heaven. This phrase also can be read as describing one of the ways interpreters historically have understood the relationship between Revelation and its metaphorical l…
One of the most lively and enduring debates in New Testament studies is the question of the significance of ‘apocalyptic' thought in Paul. This has recently given birth to a group of scholars, with a common theological genealogy, who share a concern to emphasise the ‘apocalyptic…
This dissertation is an investigation of the background and function of the marriage imagery in the book of Revelation. Marriage imagery becomes a major image at the end of the book (Rev 19:7–9; 21:2–3; 21:9–11; 22:17). It is employed to portray the intimate and indissoluble uni…
The study of the patristic quotations has long been appreciated as an important source in New Testament Textual Criticism. The unique value of the church Fathers lies in the fact that we know when and where a father wrote. Their citations of Scripture, both in their expositional…
This dissertation examines the relationship between martyrdom and divine retribution against the martyr's persecutors in the book of Revelation. The argument is made that Revelation portrays martyrdom as an impetus of Divine retribution against the persecutors of the martyrs. Ch…
This dissertation is a systematic analysis of the language of ancient Jewish historical apocalypses. I investigate how the dramatis personae, i.e., deities, angels/demons, and humans (both individuals and groups) are described in the Book of Daniel (2, 7, 8, 10-12) the Animal Ap…
This historical-critical study of the Book of Revelation focuses on its implicit spatial (cosmological and geographical) order with the purpose of clarifying the nature of the characters and events in its narrative. Revelation's author, John, was a Jewish Christian who wrote a g…
Explanations of the rise of the genre apocalypse in Hellenistic Judaism have typically traced literary influences but left questions about the mechanisms by which the genre itself came about. To address these questions, this dissertation focuses new methodological and philologic…
Since about 1960, historians of Early Christianity have been building something approaching a consensus view of that religion's first few centuries of development. This view is based on the (much older) assumption that the dichotomy between what pertains to "spirit" ( spiritus ,…
La Santa Muerte is a folk saint depicted as a female Grim Reaper in Mexico and the Southwestern United States. The Grim Reaper, as an iconic representation of death, was derived from the Angel of Death found in pseudepigrapha and apocalyptic writings of Jewish and early Christia…
This dissertation examines the significance of Exodus typology upon the conclusion of Scripture, namely, John's Apocalypse. After a brief introduction to the project in chapter 1, chapter 2 focuses on intertextuality, defining key terminology including typology. Chapter 3 examin…
The major peculiarities of the language of the Apocalypse related to the usage of the Verb and of the Clause are here explained as due to the influence of the Hebrew and Aramaic languages, not to the author's lack of familiarity with Greek. The approach has been to isolate in ea…