Temporal Dimensions of the Apocalypse
Ancient Christian Reception and Contemporary Hermeneutical Reflections
By (author) Bohdan Kuryliak
Paperback (Forthcoming)
(September 2026)
ISBN: 9783162002785
6.1 x 9.13 inches
Price: $164.00
Bohdan Kuryliak examines the book of Revelation through four approaches: preterism, idealism, historicism, and futurism. Drawing on careful exegesis and ancient Christian reception history, he argues that historicism’s ability to combine past, present, and future offers an integrative framework for understanding the Apocalypse’s prophetic imagery.
Bohdan Kuryliak examines the book of Revelation through four interpretive approaches: preterism, idealism, historicism, and futurism. Drawing on a synthesis of close biblical exegesis and early Christian reception history (second to seventh centuries), he analyzes key temporal markers and disputed passages, ranging from the vision of the seals to the millennium. The author challenges the tendency to confine the text’s symbolic richness to a single framework, showing that early Christian interpreters often blended these perspectives by combining past, present, and future dimensions. By grounding this synthesis in the text itself, he proposes historicism as an integrative model that incorporates the temporal insights of the other three approaches. The author thus offers a renewed hermeneutical pathway for navigating Revelation’s complex temporal landscape.
1. Introduction
2. Interpretive Issues in the Book of Revelation: The Temporal Dimensions
2.1. Temporal Markers of the Apocalypse
2.2. Seven Seals (Revelation 6:1-8:1)
2.3. Seven Trumpets (Revelation 8:7-11:19)
2.4. Dragon and the Beasts (Revelation 12-13)
2.5. Babylon the Whore (Revelation 17)
2.6. Millennial Kingdom (Revelation 20)
2.7. Conclusions
3. Temporal Dimensions in the Reception of the Book of Revelation (ca. 2nd-7th Centuries)
3.1. Early Revelation's Reception (ca. 2nd-3rd Centuries)
3.2. Later Revelation's Reception (ca. 4th-7th Centuries)
3.3. Conclusions
4. The Panorama of Hermeneutical Approaches
4.1. Temporal Markers of the Apocalypse
4.2. Preterist Approach
4.3. Idealist Approach
4.4. Historicist Approach
4.5. Futurist Approach
4.6. Conclusions
5. Conclusions
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