TY - BOOK AU - Barr,David L. TI - The reality of Apocalypse: rhetoric and politics in the book of Revelation T2 - Society of Biblical Literature symposium series SN - 9004151079 (cloth binding : alk. paper) AV - BS2825.52 .R44 2006b U1 - 228/.06 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Bible KW - Revelation KW - Socio-rhetorical criticism KW - Congresses N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-275) and indexes; Reading the Apocalypse as Apocalypse : the limits of genre / Gregory L. Linton -- Apocalypse renewed : an intertextual reading of the Apocalypse of John / David E. Aune -- Beyond genre : the expectations of Apocalypse / David L. Barr -- Hearing and seeing but not saying : a rhetoric of authority in Revelation 10:4 and 2 Corinthians 12:4 / Jean-Pierre Ruiz -- To rejoice or not to rejoice? : rhetoric and the fall of Satan in Luke 10:17-24 and Rev. 12:1-17 / Edith M. Humphrey -- Sarcasm in Revelation 2-3 : churches, Christians, true Jews, and Satanic synagogues / Steven J. Friesen -- The "synagogue of Satan" : crisis mongering and the Apocalypse of John / Paul Duff -- Symptoms of resistance in the book of Revelation / Greg Carey -- Dragon myth and imperial ideology in Revelation 12-13 / Jan Willem van Henten -- The Lamb who looks like a dragon? : characterizing Jesus in John's Apocalypse / David L. Barr -- Betwixt and between on the Lord's day : liturgy and the Apocalypse / Jean-Pierre Ruiz -- Babylon the great : a rhetorical-political reading of Revelation / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005037070.html ER -