The war between the two beasts and the two witnesses [[electronic resource] ] : a chiastic reading of Revelation 11:1-14:5 / / Antoninus King Wai Siew

• Autore: Siew Antoninus King Wai
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : T&T Clark, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Disciplina: 228/.066
• Soggetto topico: Christianity
• Classificazione: 11.46
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-313) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Editorial Board; Title; Copyright; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 THE LITERARY UNITY OF REVELATION 11.1-14.5; Chapter 3 A LITERARY-STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF REVELATION 11.1-19; Chapter 4 A LITERARY-STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF REVELATION 12.1-14.5; Chapter 5 THE ABCDD'C'B'A' PARALLELS: TESTING THE MACRO-CHIASM; Chapter 6 THE IDENTITY OF THE TWO WITNESSES AND THE TWO BEASTS; Chapter 7 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: Siew seeks to examine the events that will unfold within the three and a half years before the dawn of the kingdom of God on earth. He argues that John composed the textual unit of Rev 11:1--14:5 as a coherent and unified literary unit structured in a macro-chiasm. He pays special attention to the fusion of form and content and seeks to elucidate how the concentric and chiastic pattern informs the meaning of the literary units within 11:1--14:5, and proposes that the text of 11:1--14:5 is best analyzed using Hebraic literary conventions, devices, and compositional techniques such as chiasm, pa
• Titolo autorizzato: The war between the two beasts and the two witnesses
• ISBN: 1-283-19356-6; 9786613193568; 0-567-13201-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789664203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Library of New Testament studies ; ; 283.