The Apocalyptic Literature: Interpreting Biblical Texts Series (Biblia.com)

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Biblical texts create worlds of meaning and invite readers to enter them. When readers enter such textual worlds, which are strange and complex, they are confronted with theological claims. With this in mind, the purpose of the IBT series is to help serious readers in their experience of reading and interpreting by providing guides for their journeys into textual worlds. The focus of the series...

to their interpretive task quickly moves them to “domesticate” the apocalyptic literature. To domesticate the apocalyptic texts of the Bible means to rob them, in one way or another, of their ability to speak on their own terms. It means shifting the focus in reading away from a serious grappling with their overt theological witness about God’s fantastic future work of re-creating reality. Modern people are not used to direct,

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