Apocalypse Recalled

by Maier, Harry O.

• ISBN13: 9780800634926
• ISBN10: 0800634926
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

Recalls Apocalypse through a careful exegesis of Revelation's deeper literary themes against the backdrop of imperial Rome. Seeks to free the imprisoned and awaken the sleeping church to new directives in discipleship.

Author Biography

Harry O. Maier is Associate Professor of New Testament Studies, Vancouver School of Theology.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Apocalypse Troubles	1	(39)
A Crisis of Interpretation	1	(6)
The Open Work	7	(5)
Taking It Personally	12	(5)
Life amid the Ruins	17	(4)
Nietzsche's Cows	21	(9)
Reading as a Laodicean	30	(10)
I, John	40	(24)
A Strange Case	40	(8)
From Cell to Clinic	48	(5)
Against Interpretation	53	(2)
Making It Personal	55	(6)
Remembering Apocalypse	61	(3)
Seeing Things	64	(27)
Eyeing John	64	(7)
God's Spectacle	71	(4)
Performing Apocalypse	75	(12)
Remembering Apocalypse	87	(4)
Hearing Voices	91	(32)
John's Auditorium	91	(17)
Making Noises	108	(8)
Remembering Apocalypse	116	(7)
Games with Time	123	(41)
Post-Apocalypse	123	(9)
Making Time	132	(4)
A Special Kind of Middle	136	(12)
Placing Time	148	(8)
Taking Time	156	(3)
Remembering Apocalypse	159	(5)
The Praise of Folly	164	(34)
Making Fun	164	(6)
Irony's Stage	170	(8)
Irony Demystifying	178	(4)
Parodies in the Contact Zone	182	(8)
A Fool's Paradise	190	(8)
Remembering Apocalypse	198	(10)
Abbreviations	208	(2)
Notes	210	(41)
Index of Names and Subjects	251	(11)
Index of Biblical References	262