The Reality of Apocalypse

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Biographical note

David L. Barr, Ph.D. in Humanities/Religion (1974), Florida State University, is Professor of Religion at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He is the author of numerous books including Reading the Book of Revelation: A Resource for Students (SBL) and Tales of the End: A Narrative Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Polebridge).

Part One: Rhetoric and Reality. Reading the Apocalypse as Apocalypse: The Limits of Genre, Gregory L. Linton; Apocalypse Renewed: An Intertextual Reading of the Apocalypse of John, David E. Aune; Beyond Genre: The Expectations of Apocalypse, David L. Barr; Hearing and Seeing but not Saying: A Rhetoric of Authority, Jean-Pierre Ruiz; To Rejoice or Not to Rejoice? Rhetoric and the Fall of Satan in Luke 10:17-24 and Rev 12:1-17, Edith M. Humphrey; Sarcasm in Revelation 2-3: Churches, Christians, True Jews, and Satanic Synagogues, Steven J. Friesen. Part Two: Politics and Reality. The “Synagogue of Satan”: Crisis Mongering and the Apocalypse of John, Paul Duff; Revelation and Empire: Symptoms of Resistance, Greg Carey; Dragon Myth and Imperial Ideology in Revelation 12-13, Jan Willem van Henten; The Lamb Who Looks Like a Dragon? Characterizing Jesus in John’s Apocalypse, David L. Barr; Betwixt and between on the Lord’s Day: Liturgy and the Apocalypse, Jean-Pierre Ruiz; The Rhetoricity of Revelation and the Politics of Interpretation, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.

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Exploring Ecological Hermeneutics

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Matthew, James, and Didache

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John, Jesus, and History, Volume 1

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Lamentations in Ancient and Contemporary Cultural Contexts

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Writing and Reading War

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Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible

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The Multivalence of Biblical Texts and Theological Meanings

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