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The Worthy Champion: A Christology of the Book of Revelation Based on Elements of Its Literary Composition is unavailable, but you can change that!

Brian R. Hand analyzes Revelation’s Christology and literary composition in The Worthy Champion. A valuable resource for Christological and New Testament studies, literary analysis, and biblical theology, The Worthy Champion shows how Revelation’s literary composition reveals Christ. Analyzing the genre of Revelation, Hand supports its status as prophetic rather than apocalyptic. He also...

Some literary critics see a dramatic structure in Revelation that they trace to Greco-Roman dramatic form.33 Classical drama is a narrative poem designed for theatrical performance and narrated in the third-person that exhibits elements of plot, climax, and denouement.34 While the intricate arrangement of Revelation may look like the carefully constructed Greco-Roman plays, several elements contradict this analysis. First, drama is typically a third-person phenomenon.35 Revelation’s
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