Apocalypse - Softcover

Collins, Adela Yarbro

 
9780894531231: Apocalypse

Synopsis

New Testament Message, Volume 22: A Biblical-Theological Commentary "Those who continue to look for some help in deciphering the Apocalypse will welcome this clear and competent commentary." --The Bible Today "(Adela Yarbro Collins) can only be thanked for offering to a wide public a lucid, well-informed and profound commentary on a book which continues to cause considerable confusion." --The Catholic Biblical Quarterly

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About the Author

Adela Yarbro Collins is Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University. Her previous books include Mark: A Commentary and Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of the Apocalypse.

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This interpretation is written in the conviction that the key to understanding this work is its literary form: revelatory narrative and allegorical narrative. It reveals the structure of the narrative and its basic underlying pattern of persecution, judgment and salvation. It shares with us the message that even as Christ passed through suffering and death to the resurrection beyond, so too may we.

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