God's Timetable
The Book of Revelation and the Feast of Seven Weeks
Published on 17. January 2011
202 pages
978-1-63087-663-0 (ISBN)
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Sets of seven. 666. The Whore of Babylon and the Seven-headed Beast. How would first-century readers have heard these things? One can get at an answer by asking, How does the Book of Revelation compare with contemporaneous Jewish apocalypses? God's Timetable unlocks the hitherto unseen Jewish background to the Apocalypse based on the seven weeks leading up to Pentecost, the Harvest Feast. The meaning of Revelation suddenly becomes clearer. Stramara situates the Book of Revelation in its original context as a prophetic work regarding the end of the world, the final harvest, and Jesus as the fulfillment of expectations.
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Daniel F. Stramara Jr. is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, MO. He regularly teaches a course on the Book of Revelation. Stramara is the author of over twenty articles published in international journals.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
- Chapter 3: The Liturgical Meanings of the Feast of Weeks and the Lectionary
- Chapter 4: Revelation as an Apocalyptic Pentecost Commentary
- Chapter 5: The Historical, Religious, and Political Contexts
- Chapter 6: Gematria and Some Underlying Hebrew Plays on Words
- Chapter 7: Recapitulation: Re-envisioning Revelation
- Appendix A: Jewish Liturgical Readings for the Feast of Weeks
- Appendix B: The Ancient Empires and Their Major Rulers
- Appendix C: The Hasmonean and Herodian Dynasties in Israel
- Appendix D: Chronology of the Jewish War (66-70)
- Appendix E: Chiastic Structure of the Book of Revelation
- Bibliography
