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Beal, Timothy K. (Timothy Kandler), 1963- author.
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Bible. Revelation -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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The Book of Revelation : a biography / Timothy Beal.
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Beal, Timothy K. (Timothy Kandler), 1963- author.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Subjects
Bible. Revelation -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN:
9780691145839 (hardcover ; alk. paper) :
0691145830 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
Series:
Lives of great religious books.
Description:
xv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Contents:
Introduction -- Pale Rider: Obscure origins -- Apocalypse not now: Augustine's tale of two cities -- Cry out and write: Hildegard's Apocalypse -- Mind's eye: Joachim in the forests of history -- September's testament: Luther's Bible vs Cranach's Revelation -- New world of gods and monsters: othering other religions -- Heaven in a garage: James Hampton's throne room -- Left behind, again: the rise and fall of evangelical rapture horror culture -- Post script: Revelation becomes us.
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Few biblical books have been as revered and reviled as Revelation. Many hail it as the pinnacle of prophetic vision, the cornerstone of the biblical canon, and, for those with eyes to see, the key to understanding the past, present, and future. Others denounce it as the work of a disturbed individual whose horrific dreams of inhumane violence should never have been allowed into the Bible. Timothy Beal provides a concise cultural history of Revelation and the apocalyptic imaginations it has fueled. Taking readers from the book's composition amid the Christian persecutions of first-century Rome to its enduring influence today in popular culture, media, and visual art, Beal explores the often wildly contradictory lives of this sometimes horrifying, sometimes inspiring biblical vision. He shows how such figures as Augustine and Hildegard of Bingen made Revelation central to their own mystical worldviews, and how, thanks to the vivid works of art it inspired, the book remained popular even as it was denounced by later church leaders such as Martin Luther. Attributed to a mysterious prophet identified only as John, Revelation speaks with a voice unlike any other in the Bible. Beal demonstrates how the book is a multimedia constellation of stories and images that mutate and evolve as they take hold in new contexts, and how Revelation is reinvented in the hearts and minds of each new generation. This succinct book traces how Revelation continues to inspire new diagrams of history, new fantasies of rapture, and new nightmares of being left behind.
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
228 Be
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07/06/2020
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Kailua-Kona Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
228 Be
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