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The Throne Motif in the Book of Revelation argues that the throne motif constitutes the major interpretive key to the complex structure and theology of the book of Revelation. In the first part of the book, Gallusz examines the throne motif in the Old Testament, Jewish literature, and Graeco-Roman sources. He moves on to devote significant attention to the throne of God texts of Revelation and...
The Old Testament generally uses the noun כסא to refer to ‘throne’. According to Fabry, כסא occurs 135 times in this body of literature.1 The variant expression כסה has the same meaning but occurs only three times.2 The term כרסא is the Aramaic equivalent, and is represented three times in the Aramaic portion of the book of Daniel.3 All three terms designate both thrones of God and human beings in the Old Testament. This chapter is concerned only with the divine throne, since
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