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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...

influenced most by the Hebrew rather than the Greek Old Testament,10 a conclusion based mainly on the observation that John’s allusions depart from the wording of the LXX;11 however, the wording also departs from the Hebrew at significant points.12 The likelihood is that John draws from both Semitic and Greek biblical sources and often modifies both.13 Charles himself acknowledged that, though John’s pattern was to translate from the Hebrew text and not to quote from the Greek version, nevertheless,
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