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Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 52B: Revelation 6–16 is unavailable, but you can change that!

An advocate of source criticism and an expert in early Christian prophecy, David Aune examines the full range of secular and biblical literature in search of possible sources for the striking literary devices in Revelation—over three volumes and more than 1,500 pages. His mastery of an incredibly broad range of ancient writings enables him to compare every pericope of Revelation to the literary...

6. When does this scene take place? Several views regarding the temporal orientation of this scene have been proposed by scholars. Most interpreters view this scene as a proleptic vision of the future eschatological consummation (Beckwith, 530, 539; Zahn, 377; Mounce, 171; Prigent, 123; Giesen, 196). A second view is that the vision focuses on the reward of Christians who die before the Parousia of Christ and during the period when heaven and earth are still separate (Rissi, Babylon, 18). A third
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