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Interpreting Revelation and Other Apocalyptic Literature: An Exegetical Handbook is unavailable, but you can change that!

With historic events seeming to burgeon with signs of the last days, the study of apocalyptic literature--that which is concerned with the end of history as we know it and the coming kingdom of God--has become increasingly relevant. C. Marvin Pate provides a guide to the distinctive content, form, and function of apocalyptic books for those who are interested in exegesis of biblical apocalyptic...

12:34; 13:26, 48–49; 1QH 3) just as God protected Jews during the Egyptian plagues. At the appearance of the Messiah, these sealed saints will join the end-time holy war against the enemies of God (cf. Rev. 19; 1QM). Whether these saints are Jews or the church is a matter of debate. Related to the last point, the mother and her seed that endure persecution from the Dragon is a well-known feature in Egyptian and Greco-Roman literature. Craig Keener writes, In
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