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Author Siew, Antoninus King Wai

Title The war between the two beasts and the two witnesses : a chiastic reading of Revelation 11:1-14:5 / Antoninus King Wai Siew
Published London ; New York : T & T Clark, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 331 pages)
Series Library of New Testament studies ; 283
T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Library of New Testament studies ; 283.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
Contents Cover; Editorial Board; Title; Copyright; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 THE LITERARY UNITY OF REVELATION 11.1-14.5; Chapter 3 A LITERARY-STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF REVELATION 11.1-19; Chapter 4 A LITERARY-STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF REVELATION 12.1-14.5; Chapter 5 THE ABCDD''C''B''A'' PARALLELS: TESTING THE MACRO-CHIASM; Chapter 6 THE IDENTITY OF THE TWO WITNESSES AND THE TWO BEASTS; Chapter 7 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
Summary Siew seeks to examine the events that will unfold within the three and a half years before the dawn of the kingdom of God on earth. He argues that John composed the textual unit of Rev 11:1--14:5 as a coherent and unified literary unit structured in a macro-chiasm. He pays special attention to the fusion of form and content and seeks to elucidate how the concentric and chiastic pattern informs the meaning of the literary units within 11:1--14:5, and proposes that the text of 11:1--14:5 is best analyzed using Hebraic literary conventions, devices, and compositional techniques such as chiasm, pa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-313) and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Bible. Revelation, XI, 1-XIV, 5 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bibel Offenbarung des Johannes 11,1-14,5 gnd
Johannes-Apokalypse 11,1-14,5. swd
Subject RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
Openbaring van Johannes (bijbelboek)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567132017
0567132013