“apocalypse” and “apocalyptic” as our starting point and set out to make it more consistent.7 We took the self-presentation of the texts into account (we looked for any texts that might be described as revelations), but our definition was at a higher level of abstraction than the self-presentation of individual texts. A revelation might be introduced as a vision, or a dream of the night, or a “word,” or just by a verb, such as “I saw.” For our purposes, all of these counted as “revelations.” It is