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John’s Use of the Old Testament in Revelation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Gregory K. Beale explores the variety of ways John uses the Old Testament in the Apocalypse. The introduction surveys and evaluates recent studies, which have been divided over the issue of whether or not John uses the Old Testament with sensitivity to its original literary context. The remainder of the book looks at various ways in which John uses the Old Testament, and argues that there is a...

conclusions reached by earlier commentators. There are so many studies which are given substantial treatment that they cannot be summarized adequately here without detracting from the excellent manner in which they are discussed by Bauckham. Nevertheless, one of his analyses deserves brief comment, since it is so novel and so well argued, and is representative of the fresh approaches he takes elsewhere in the book.27 Bauckham argues persuasively that the numbering of Rev. 7:4–8 suggests that those
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