TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beal,Timothy
TI  - The Book of Revelation: A Biography 
T2  - Lives of Great Religious Books
SN  - 9780691145839
AV  - BS2827 .B43 2018
U1  - 228 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Eschatology
KW  - RELIGION / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Antipope
KW  - Apocalypse
KW  - Balaam
KW  - Bernard McGinn (theologian)
KW  - Bible
KW  - Book of Revelation
KW  - Books of Kings
KW  - Case Western Reserve University
KW  - Cataclysm (Dragonlance)
KW  - Christendom
KW  - Christian mission
KW  - Christian right
KW  - Christian theology
KW  - Christian
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Clarence Larkin
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Colonialism
KW  - Consummation
KW  - David Cronenberg
KW  - Deity
KW  - Diocletian
KW  - Dispensationalism
KW  - Divine judgment
KW  - End time
KW  - Enthronement
KW  - Evangelicalism
KW  - Ex nihilo
KW  - Ezekiel
KW  - False prophet
KW  - Fornication
KW  - Futurist
KW  - God
KW  - Gog and Magog
KW  - Hal Lindsey
KW  - Hildegard of Bingen
KW  - Horror film
KW  - Humus
KW  - I Wish (manhwa)
KW  - Illustration
KW  - Image of God
KW  - Incense
KW  - Irenaeus
KW  - Israelites
KW  - Jehovah's Witnesses
KW  - Jesus movement
KW  - Jews
KW  - Joachim of Fiore
KW  - John of Patmos
KW  - John the Apostle
KW  - Lake of fire
KW  - Lecture
KW  - Lenny Kravitz
KW  - Lucas Cranach the Elder
KW  - Manuscript
KW  - Many Waters
KW  - Narrative
KW  - New Testament
KW  - New media
KW  - Nicolas Cage
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Persecution
KW  - Preface (liturgy)
KW  - Premillennialism
KW  - Prophecy
KW  - Protestantism
KW  - Psalms
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religious text
KW  - Resurrection of the dead
KW  - Revelation 12
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Sacred history
KW  - Satan
KW  - Satanism
KW  - Scivias
KW  - Scofield Reference Bible
KW  - Sea monster
KW  - Second Coming
KW  - Second death
KW  - Seminar
KW  - Sermon
KW  - Serpents in the Bible
KW  - Seven churches of Asia
KW  - Seven seals
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Technology
KW  - The City of God (book)
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - Theology
KW  - Throne room
KW  - Timothy Beal
KW  - Vulgate
KW  - Western Christianity
KW  - Whore of Babylon
KW  - Woodcut
KW  - Writing
KW  - Youth for Christ
KW  - Zombie
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. Pale Rider: Obscure Origins --; Chapter 3. Apocalypse Not Now: Augustine’s Tale of Two Cities --; Chapter 4. Cry Out and Write: Hildegard’s Apocalypse --; Chapter 5. Mind’s Eye: Joachim in the Forests of History --; Chapter 6. September’s Testament: Luther’s Bible vs. Cranach’s Revelation --; Chapter 7. New World of Gods and Monsters: Othering Other Religions --; Chapter 8. Heaven in a Garage: James Hampton’s Throne Room --; Chapter 9. Left Behind, Again: The Rise and Fall of Evangelical Rapture Horror Culture --; Chapter 10. Post Script: Revelation Becomes Us --; Further Reading --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The life and times of the New Testament’s most mystifying and incendiary bookFew biblical books have been as revered and reviled as Revelation. Many hail it as the pinnacle of prophetic vision, the cornerstone of the biblical canon, and, for those with eyes to see, the key to understanding the past, present, and future. Others denounce it as the work of a disturbed individual whose horrific dreams of inhumane violence should never have been allowed into the Bible. Timothy Beal provides a concise cultural history of Revelation and the apocalyptic imaginations it has fueled.Taking readers from the book’s composition amid the Christian persecutions of first-century Rome to its enduring influence today in popular culture, media, and visual art, Beal explores the often wildly contradictory lives of this sometimes horrifying, sometimes inspiring biblical vision. He shows how such figures as Augustine and Hildegard of Bingen made Revelation central to their own mystical worldviews, and how, thanks to the vivid works of art it inspired, the book remained popular even as it was denounced by later church leaders such as Martin Luther. Attributed to a mysterious prophet identified only as John, Revelation speaks with a voice unlike any other in the Bible. Beal demonstrates how the book is a multimedia constellation of stories and images that mutate and evolve as they take hold in new contexts, and how Revelation is reinvented in the hearts and minds of each new generation.This succinct book traces how Revelation continues to inspire new diagrams of history, new fantasies of rapture, and new nightmares of being left behind
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691185088?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691185088
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691185088/original
ER  -