New Perspectives on the Book of Revelation
Edited by A. Yarbro Collins
This volume contains the proceedings of the 64th Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense (July 23-25, 2015) which dealt with the state of the question in research on the book of Revelation and the exploration of new perspectives and methods. Certain classic or well established approaches to the book of Revelation, such as the use of Scripture, the genre, establishing the text, and its peculiar Greek were assessed. But also newer approaches were represented, explored, and taken further, for example, the construction of time and space in the work, theological issues raised by the work (such as individual predestination), ethical issues (violence), and various aspects of the history of interpretation, reception, lecture, and Wirkungsgeschichte.
This volume contains the proceedings of the 64th Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense (July 23-25, 2015) which dealt with the state of the question in research on the book of Revelation and the exploration of new perspectives and methods. Many interpretive issues continue to be contested, such as the genre of the work. Is it an apocalypse, a letter, or a book of prophecy? If it is all of these, how do the apocalyptic, epistolary, and prophetic elements work together? Certain classic or well established approaches to the book of Revelation, such as the use of Scripture, the genre, establishing the text, and its peculiar Greek were assessed. But also newer approaches were represented, explored, and taken further, for example, the construction of time and space in the work, theological issues raised by the work (such as individual predestination), ethical issues (violence), and various aspects of the history of interpretation, reception, lecture, and Wirkungsgeschichte. Challenges in the interpretation of images and symbols were addressed, both from an historical critical point of view and in relation to the dependence of results on the scholarly approach selected by the interpreter.
- Edited by A. Yarbro Collins
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Responsibility, God and Society. Theological Ethics in Dialogue
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Un livre de feu dans un siècle de fer
Les lectures de l'Apocalypse dans la littérature française de la Renaissance
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L’intrigue dans le récit biblique
Quatrième colloque international du RRENAB, Université Laval, Québec,29 mai-1er juin 2008
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Gratia et certamen
The Relationship between Grace and Free Will in the Discussion ofAugustine with the So-called Semipelagians
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Penser la tradition avec Walter Kasper
Pertinence d'une catholicité historiquement et culturellementouverte
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La contribution du discours à la caractérisation des personnagesbibliques
Neuvième colloque international du RRENAB, Louvain-la-Neuve, 31 mai -2 juin 2018
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New Studies in the Synoptic Problem. Oxford Conference, April 2008
Essays in Honour of Christopher M. Tuckett
Volume 239
La structure ontologique-communionnelle de la personne
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