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Beastly Boasts and Apocalyptic Affects: Reading Revelation in a Time of Trump and a Time of Plague

Religions, 2020
Waxing “biblical,” Donald Trump has described the COVID-19 pandemic as a “plague.” In a different but related register, millions of Christians worldwide have interpreted the pandemic as one of the eschatological plagues prophesied in the Book of ...
Stephen D. Moore
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The ethos of the Book of Revelation

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2003
Recently, scholars consensus concerning the biblical hermeneutics seems to have become a holistic and integrated perception. Therefore, for the sake of probing the well-balanced and controlled ethos of Revelation, the argument here is that several ...
J A du Rand, Y M Song
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Volharding as sentrale gegewe in die boek Openbaring

In die Skriflig, 1998
This article attempts to indicate that the Book of Revelation as an apocalypse has a special way of inducing its readers, the church, to listen to its message.
A. G. S. Venter, J. A. du Rand
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Violence in the Bible and the Apocalypse of John: A critical reading of J.D. Crossan’s How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
This critical reading/dialogue follows a straightforward structure. Firstly, it presents some of the major insights in J.D. Crossan’s book, attending to its inner logic on his critique on the violence which little by little creeps into the biblical texts.
Sergio Rosell Nebreda
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Reading the Apocalypse with Christopher Nolan: Story and Narrative, Time and Space [PDF]

Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2022
This essay examines the Book of Revelation in dialogue with the films of Christopher Nolan, with particular attention to the use of nonlinear narrative.
Jamie Davies
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Narratiewe tersydes in die vertelling van die Openbaring aan Johannes

In die Skriflig, 2016
Narrative asides in the narrative of the book of Revelation to John. Concerning the language (le parole) of the narrative of the book of Revelation, many ignorant and negative remarks have been thrown around.
Jan A. du Rand
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WHO ARE THESE, ROBED IN WHITE, AND WHERE HAVE THEY COME FROM? (REV 7: 13). THE ULMA FAMILY IN LIGHT OF JOHN OF PATMOS’ VISIONS

Forum Teologiczne, 2022
The main purpose of this study is to present the history of the Ulma family from Markowa against the background of the biblical vision of redeemed in Rev 7:9-17.
Aleksandra Nalewaj
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What Happens from the Foundation of the World? A Crux Interpretum in Revelation 13:8

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Theologia Reformata Transylvanica
The phrase ἀπὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου in Revelation 13:8 can be interpreted and translated in two ways. First, the Lamb-Christ was slain since the creation. Second, the worshippers of the beast have been missing from the Book of Life since the beginning.
József NAGY
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Die eskatologiese betekenis van Sion as agtergrond tot die teologie van die boek Openbaring

Verbum et Ecclesia, 1996
The eschatological meaning of Sion as background to the theology of the book of Revelation The core of the theology of the Book of Revelation focuses on the kingship of God. His kingship should be established on earth as it is in heaven. According to the
J. A. du Rand
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The devil, 666 and the COVID-19 vaccine

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
This article aims to engage the statement of the South African Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng where he made a direct link between the Covid-19 vaccine, the devil and triple-six.
Boitumelo B. Senokoane
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