The People of God in the Apocalypse : discourse, structure, and exegesis / Stephen Pattemore.

By: Pattemore, Stephen W

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TextSeries: Monograph series (Society for New Testament Studies): 128.Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: xv, 256 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0521836980 (hardback)Subject(s): Bible. Revelation -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | RelevanceDDC classification: 228/.06 LOC classification: BS2825.52 | .P38 2004Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents | Contributor biographical information

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Summary: Stephen Pattemore examines passages within Revelation 4:1-22:21 that depict the people of God as actors in the apocalyptic drama and infers what impact these passages would have had on the self-understanding and behaviour of the original audience of the work. He uses Relevance Theory, a development in the linguistic field of pragmatics, to help understand the text against the background of allusion to other texts. Three important images are traced. The picture of the souls under the altar (6:9-11) is found to govern much of the direction of the text with its call to faithful witness and willingness for martyrdom. Even the militant image of a messianic army (7:1-8, 14:1-5) urges the audience in precisely the same direction. Both images combine in the final image of the bride, the culmination of challenge and hope traced briefly in the New Jerusalem visions.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-245) and index.

Question of relevance --Relevance theory in biblical interpretation --Cognitive environment for the Apocalypse --Souls under the altar-a martyr ecclesiology --Companions of the lamb-a messianic ecclesiology --New Jerusalem, bride of the lamb --Summar and conclusions.

Stephen Pattemore examines passages within Revelation 4:1-22:21 that depict the people of God as actors in the apocalyptic drama and infers what impact these passages would have had on the self-understanding and behaviour of the original audience of the work. He uses Relevance Theory, a development in the linguistic field of pragmatics, to help understand the text against the background of allusion to other texts. Three important images are traced. The picture of the souls under the altar (6:9-11) is found to govern much of the direction of the text with its call to faithful witness and willingness for martyrdom. Even the militant image of a messianic army (7:1-8, 14:1-5) urges the audience in precisely the same direction. Both images combine in the final image of the bride, the culmination of challenge and hope traced briefly in the New Jerusalem visions.

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