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Shapes of apocalypse : arts and philosophy in Slavic thought
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ISBN: 1618111965 1618116959 9781618111968 9781618116956 9781618111746 1618111744 9781618111746 Year: 2013 Publisher: Boston : Academic Studies Press,

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This collective volume aims to highlight the philosophical and literary idea of apocalypse within key examples in the Slavic world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Russian realism to avant-garde painting, from the classic fiction of the nineteenth century to twentieth-century philosophy, not omitting theatre, cinema or music, the concepts of "end of history" and "end of present time" are specifically examined as conditions for a redemptive image of the world. To understand this idea is to understand an essential part of Slavic culture, which, however divergent and variegated it may be, converges on this specific myth in a surprising manner.

The book of Revelation
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ISBN: 0195353919 1423759753 9781423759751 9786610470051 6610470057 0195115805 0195055519 9780195055511 9780195115802 Year: 1990 Publisher: New York Oxford Oxford University Press

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Critically examines the language, literature, history, and social setting of the Book of Revelation. After discussion of the importance of the apocalypse genre, Thompson considers the form and structure of the book, the unified world created by it, and the social conditions that prevailed whilst it was being written. Originally published in 1990.

Reformation readings of the Apocalypse : Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg
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ISBN: 1280834765 0195350057 9780195350050 0195138856 9780195138856 9781280834769 0197740715 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,


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The mystery of the book of Revelation
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ISBN: 0773411968 9780773411968 Year: 2008 Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. Edwin Mellen Press

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This work represents an intersection between two important methods of interpretation. It presents a very complex theory of narrative relating to the experience of time and the production and reception of narrative is applied to the question of the eschatology of the Book of Revelation. The work argues that John of Patmos has a vision of two ages: one of a world fraught with conflict, violence and oppression and another similarly present for the Christian faithful, in which they experience the salvation expected at the end of the ages, now, gathered under God's protection.

Revelation
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ISBN: 0203133080 1282777793 9786612777790 1134757379 1283837544 9780203133088 0415146402 9780415146401 9781134757374 0415146410 9780415146418 0415146410 9780415146418 9781282777798 6612777796 9781283837545 9781134757329 1134757328 9781134757367 1134757360 Year: 1997 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Revelation claims to tell the story of 'what must soon take place', and yet, despite centuries of scholarly research, the order and content of this story has remained one of the greatest mysteries of all time.Arguing that Revelation was designed to be heard in six separate instalments, A.J.P. Garrow's innovative book suggests a new and orderly understanding of the structure of the story. This development makes possible a new and coherent interpretation of 'what must soon take place'.According to this study, John discerned a close connection between the present and the End. Fo


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Commentary on the Apocalypse
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ISBN: 0813219426 9780813219424 9780813201238 0813201233 9780813228112 Year: 2012 Volume: 123 Publisher: Washington, D.C. The Catholic University of America Press

A postmodern revelation : signs of astrology and the Apocalypse
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ISBN: 1281997668 9786611997663 1442678658 9781442678651 0802041728 0802079768 9780802079763 9780802041722 9781281997661 Year: 1997 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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In this new interpretation of the Book of Revelation, Jacques M. Chevalier examines the relationship between astromythology and Western interpretation. While scholars have noted the influence of ancient astromythology in Revelation before, Chevalier shows how John's heavenly imagery is the key to a polemical dialogue between modes of storytelling in Western history: astrology and eschatology, and naturalism and logocentrism. The book also explains how the 'genealogical' concerns of modern academia about the origins of natural and cultural history have supplanted the future-oriented visions of sidereal divination and Christian prophecy. The first three chapters and epilogue situate Chevalier's biblical analysis in the context of broader interpretations of astrology and the apocalypse developed by Jung, D.H. Lawrence, LTvi-Strauss, Derrida, Foucault, Cassirer, Adorno, Frye, Barthes, and Morin. They also provide the reader with a solid background in the history of astrological belief systems and exegetic readings of Revelation extending from antiquity to the late twentieth century. The remaining chapters are devoted to two questions. First, how does the imagery in Revelation relate to expressions of astromythology? Second, how do twentieth-century readings of Revelation reflect a 'genealogical' perspective on notions of signs, textuality, and destiny?A Postmodern Revelation is itself an 'apocalypse, ' a revelation to scholars interested in sign theory, eschatology, and the history of astrology. The book does far more than interpret the specific biblical text of John's Revelation: it plays with polemics and parallels in the history of Western thought, tracing the history of signs and their meaning from antiquity to a postmodern era that heralds the end of all myths of the End.

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