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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...

The purpose of this chapter is to survey and evaluate briefly the most significant studies written since the mid-1980s. My own study was the first to appear in the decade of the eighties.6 I attempted to demonstrate that a number of works in Jewish apocalyptic literature and some passages in John’s Revelation reflected similar exegetical patterns of the use of Daniel. In particular, I concluded that whole segments
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