RT Review
T1 The People of God in the Apocalypse: Discourse, Structure and Exegesis. By Stephen Pattemore. Pp. xvi + 256. (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 128.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. isbn 0 521 83698 0. £45/75
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 56
IS 2
SP 581
OP 584
A1 Boxall, Ian
LA English
YR 2005
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783716495
AB This penetrating study has its origins in the author's Otago University doctoral thesis, and its subject-matter is particularly influenced by his involvement in biblical translation projects in the Asia-Pacific region. Particularly when translating such a complex and multilayered text as John's Apocalypse, questions of relevance are much to the fore: both relevance for the contemporary interpreting community and for the original audiences. In the case of the latter, how did they pick their way through the web of allusion and possible meaning, in order to make sense of the text and, more importantly, to find themselves in the text? Stephen Pattemore tackles such questions by drawing upon Relevance Theory, a development in the linguistic field of pragmatics.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/fli143