Revelation / Sigve K. Tonstad.

By:

Tonstad, Sigve, 1951-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Paideia : commentaries on the New TestamentPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, [2019]Description: xvii, 398 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780801049002

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

228/.077 23

LOC classification:

BS2825.53 .T66 2019

Contents:

Introduction -- Incentive to Read -- To the One Who Has an Ear -- The Seven Seals -- The Seven Trumpets -- The Cosmic Conflict from A to Z -- The Seven Bowls -- The Women and the Beast -- The Wedding, the Reader, and the Supper -- The Thousands Years and Then -- Journeys End -- The healing of the Nations.

Summary: This practical commentary on Revelation is conversant with contemporary scholarship, draws on ancient backgrounds, and attends to the theological nature of the text. Sigve Tonstad, an expert in the early Jewish context of the New Testament, offers a nonretributive reading of Revelation and addresses the issue of divine violence. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the text employs, showing how the text shapes moral habits, and making judicious use of photos and sidebars in a reader-friendly format.

List(s) this item appears in: Novi naslovi_Rujan-Studeni 2020.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Biblijski institut - Amruševa	228/.077TONre (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		6170380
Books	Biblijski institut - Amruševa	228/.077TONre2 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		6170381

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-375) and indexes.

Introduction -- Incentive to Read --
To the One Who Has an Ear -- The Seven Seals -- The Seven Trumpets -- The Cosmic Conflict from A to Z -- The Seven Bowls -- The Women and the Beast -- The Wedding, the Reader, and the Supper -- The Thousands Years and Then --
Journeys End -- The healing of the Nations.

This practical commentary on Revelation is conversant with contemporary scholarship, draws on ancient backgrounds, and attends to the theological nature of the text. Sigve Tonstad, an expert in the early Jewish context of the New Testament, offers a nonretributive reading of Revelation and addresses the issue of divine violence. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the text employs, showing how the text shapes moral habits, and making judicious use of photos and sidebars in a reader-friendly format.

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