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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...

We might also mention at this point that the covenant theme integrates three genres of Revelation: prophecy, letter, and apocalyptic. The covenant theme connects to the genre of prophecy (2–3; 22:6–10, 18–20) in that the Old Testament prophets enforced the covenant with Israel, which is now applied to John and the church. The letter genre (1:4–5; 2–3; 22:21) understands Revelation to be the book of the new covenant (see 5:1–5; 6–7). The apocalyptic genre, as we saw in the first half of this chapter,
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