The People of God in the Apocalypse: Discourse, Structure and Exegesis

by Stephen Pattemore

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521836980
• ISBN13: 9780521836982
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.5"