Richard J Bauckham Dr Bauckham is Lecturer in the History of Christian Thought at the University of Manchester. Since writing his PhD (Cambridge) on the sixteenth-century divine William Fulke, he has been much engaged in studying the book of Revelation in the wider context of apocalyptic literature. The following study arises from Paul D. Hanson’s recent book, The dawn of apocalyptic, but goes on to consider other recent advances in this area, and to evaluate the place of