COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES AND TABLE; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 A QUESTION OF RELEVANCE; 2 RELEVANCE THEORY IN BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION; 3 A COGNITIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE APOCALYPSE; 4 SOULS UNDER THE ALTAR -- A MARTYR ECCLESIOLOGY; 5 COMPANIONS OF THE LAMB -- A MESSIANIC ECCLESIOLOGY; 6 THE NEW JERUSALEM, BRIDE OF THE LAMB; 7 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; APPENDIX ABBREVIATED DISCOURSE OUTLINE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary
This book examines how the original audience of the Apocalypse would have heard themselves portrayed in the visions of chapters 4 22, and in what directions it would have motivated them. Stephen Pattemore uses linguistic analysis to help understand Revelation in the context of other biblical and non-biblical texts
