RT Book
T1 The People of God in the Apocalypse: discourse, structure, and exegesis
T2 Society for New Testament Studies monograph series
A1 Pattemore, Stephen W.
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2004
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883359049
AB 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.
OP 256
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BS2825.52
SN 9780511488153
K1 Bible : Revelation : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Relevance
K1 Bible ; Revelation ; Criticism, interpretation, etc
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511488153