medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I would recomend _Revelation_, by J.(osephine) Massyngberde Ford. It is volume 38,
in _The Anchor Bible_. The general editors are William J. Albright and David Noel
Freedman, 1975, Doubleday. I also agree with Kerry Inman.
Terrill
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V. Kerry Inman wrote:
> You missed my point entirely. Revelation is a text. It is worthy of study as a
> text. I am interested in the text as such, not its pre-history. If it was not
> written by John, even though it claims to have been written by John, this does
> not diminish its value as a text. Altogether too much time, during the late 19th
> and 20th century was spent on preliminary matters. Very little time was actually
> spent on the text, which is certainly considerably more than a 'bizarre bit of
> sci-fi.' [This is not personally directed at you or anyone else it is just my
> gut.] I get irritated when the first reaction to any biblical text is to attack
> it as not authentic. Grow up! This is not Sunday School any more! Get past
> it. What does the text say? Try a structuralist approach, post-structrualist
> approach, deconstructionist approach, any approach exceptthat now, lame,
> post-Hegelian history of religions approach.
>
> Okay? Peace! --V. K. Inman
>
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