The Book of Revelation

by Mounce, Robert H.

• ISBN13: 9780802825377
• ISBN10: 0802825370
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

When first published, this volume on Revelation by Robert H. Mounce was widely praised as a standard commentary on the Apocalypse. In this new edition, now based on the text of the NIV and Nestle-Aland, Mounce has revised and expanded his work to reflect more than twenty additional years of mature thought on Revelation and to bring his work up to date with the latest scholarship. As in the original edition, Mounce here engages seriously with the various approaches to interpretation and with the conventions common to apocalyptic literature. In affirming more directly his own reading of the Apocalypse, Mounce steers a middle course between an extreme literalism and a highly imaginative subjectivism, believing this to be the way the ancient text spoke to the first-century churches to whom it was addressed - and the way it still speaks to us today.

Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword (First Edition)	ix	(2)
Editor's Foreword (Revised Edition)	xi	(1)
Author's Preface (First Edition)	xii	(3)
Author's Preface (Revised Edition)	xv	(2)
Abbreviations	xvii	(4)
Select Bibliography	xxi
INTRODUCTION	1	(38)
I. REVELATION AND APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE	1	(7)
II. AUTHORSHIP	8	(7)
III. DATE	15	(6)
IV. CIRCULATION AND RECEPTION IN THE EARLY CHURCH	21	(3)
V. APPROACHES TO INTERPRETATION	24	(6)
VI. THE LANGUAGE OF REVELATION	30	(1)
VII. STRUCTURE	31	(2)
VIII. ANALYSIS (WITH PAGE REFERENCES)	33	(6)
TEXT, EXPOSITION, AND NOTES	39	(373)
I. PROLOGUE (1:1-20)	39	(25)
II. LETTERS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES (2:1-3:22)	64	(52)
III. ADORATION IN THE COURT OF HEAVEN (4:1-5:14)	116	(23)
IV. THE SEVEN SEALS (6:1-8:1)	139	(33)
V. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS (8:2-11:19)	172	(57)
VI. CONFLICT BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND THE POWERS OF EVIL (12:1-14:5)	229	(53)
VII. THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES (15:1-16:21)	282	(24)
VIII. THE FALL OF BABYLON (17:1-19:5)	306	(39)
IX. THE FINAL VICTORY (19:6-20:5)	345	(34)
X. THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH (21:1-22:5)	379	(23)
XI. EPILOGUE (22:6-21)	402	(10)
INDEXES	412
I. SUBJECTS	412	(3)
II. AUTHORS	415	(5)
III. SCRIPTURE REFERENCES	420