
"By an Immediate Revelation"
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- Cover
- Title
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- By an Immediate Revelation: Studies in Apocalypticism, Its Origins and Effects. Rationale and Retrospect
- Section One: The Nature of Apocalypticism
- 1. The Visions of God in Apocalyptic Literature
- 2. Apocalyptic Literature and Scripture
- 3. Apocalyptic: The Disclosure of Heavenly Knowledge
- 4. 'A Man Clothed in White Linen': Daniel 10:6ff. and Jewish Angelology
- 5. The Book of Daniel and the Radical Critique of Empire: An Essay in Apocalyptic Hermeneutics
- 6. 'A door opened in heaven': A Comparative Study of the Character of Visionary Experience in Ancient Judaism and Christianity (with Patricia Gibbons and Vicente Dobroruka)
- 7. Apocalyptic Literature
- 8. Mysticism Recorded: Text, Scripture and Parascripture
- 9. 'The heavens were opened and I saw visions of God': The Open Heaven - Nearly Four Decades on
- Section Two: Apocalyptic, Eschatological and Related Themes in the New Testament
- 10. The Vision of the Risen Christ in Revelation 1:13ff.: The Debt of an Early Christology to an Aspect of Jewish Angelology
- 11. Apocalyptic Visions and the Exaltation of Christ in the Letter to the Colossians
- 12. John 1:51, Jewish Apocalyptic and Targumic Tradition
- 13. Keeping Alive the Dangerous Vision of a World of Peace and Justice
- 14. The Parting of the Ways: The Evidence of Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic and Mystical Material
- 15. Apocalyptic, the Poor and the Gospel of Matthew
- 16. Apocalyptic, Mysticism and the New Testament
- 17. The Lamb and the Beast, the Sheep and the Goats: 'The Mystery of Salvation' in Revelation
- 18. Apocalypse, Prophecy and the New Testament
- 19. The Temple in the New Testament
- 20. Prophecy and the New Testament
- 21. 'Intimations of Apocalyptic': The Perspective of the History of Interpretation
- 22. Joachim of Fiore and the Theology of the New Testament
- 23. The Apocalypse: Sensitivity and Outsiders
- 24. The Book of Revelation: The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ
- 25. Paul as an Apocalyptist
- 26. 'Eschatology properly understood, and acted on': A Perspective on Eschatology in Honour of Andrew Chester
- 27. Why Albert Schweitzer's Writing on the New Testament Is So Important
- 28. 'Diversely and in many ways God spoke by the Prophets': The Perspectives of the New Testament and the Texts and Images of William Blake on the 'Prophetic Word'
- Section Three: The Reception of Apocalypticism and Its Significance
- 29. Apocalypse and Violence: The Evidence from the Reception History of the Book of Revelation
- 30. English Radicals and the Exegesis of the Apocalypse
- 31. Imagining the Apocalypse
- 32. Tyconius and Bede on Violent Texts in the Apocalypse (with Ian Boxall)
- 33. 'By an immediate revelation . by the voice of his own spirit to my soul': A Perspective from Reception History on the New Testament and Antinomianism
- 34. The Reception of the Book of Revelation: An Overview
- 35. British Interpretation of the Apocalypse: A Historical Perspective
- 36. 'Pride & Vanity of the imagination, That disdains to follow this World's Fashion': Apocalypticism in the Age of Reason
- Section Four: William Blake, Apocalyptic Poet and Painter
- 37. Blake and the Bible: Biblical Exegesis in the Work of William Blake
- 38. William Blake and Ezekiel's merkabah
- 39. 'Mr Blake, apo- or rather ana-calyptic Poet, and Painter': Apocalyptic Hermeneutics in Action
- 40. Blake: Text and Image
- 41. William Blake and the Apocalypse
- 42. Blake, Enoch and Emerging Biblical Criticism
- Section Five: Coda
- 43. 'Open thy mouth for the dumb': A Task for the Exegete of Holy Scripture
- 44. The Visionary Prophetic Performance of Scripture: A Tribute to Nicholas Lash (1934-2020), Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge, 1978-1999
- Particulars of First Publication
- List of Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Index of Ancient Sources
- Index of Modern Persons
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