This monograph examines the problem of universally inclusive
language in the book of Revelation and the resulting narrative
tension created by narrowly exclusive language. Analysis is
conducted by placing relevant texts within their literary-narrative
context and through consideration of how the author understood and
appropriated biblical traditions. A key feature of this study is
its examination of four early Jewish documents with significant
similarities to the problem being examined in Revelation. From
these documents (Tobit; Similitudes of Enoch [1 Enoch 37-71]; 4
Ezra; and, Animal Apocalypse [1 Enoch 85-90]) a contextual picture
emerges which allows a fuller understanding of Revelation's
distinctive approach toward the problem of the fate of the nations.
This study contends that the interpretive strategies applied to
biblical traditions in Revelation have their roots in the wider
early Jewish milieu. From this comparative analysis, identifiable
patterns with regard to the role of 'universal terminology' in the
communicative strategy of John's Apocalypse emerge.
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