NT033-812 - Interpreting and Applying Revelation
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2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
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12Credit Points
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0.125 EFT
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8AQF level
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Category advanced unitC
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new testamentUnit Discipline
Prerequisites
24cps NT
Exclusions
Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code NT743-4.
Set Text
This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses.Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, students willA. Know and understand
1. Demonstrate Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, the interpretation and application of Revelation
B. Be able to
1. Examine recent scholarship on the interpretation and application of Revelation
2. Demonstrate skill in utilising diverse scholarship in the interpretation and application of Revelation
3. Present Research-Aware evidence-based perspectives on the interpretation and application of Revelation
C. Be in a position to
1. Applying Advanced perspectives and skills from ‘Interpreting and Applying Revelation’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner
Content
- Historical, social and theological roots of New Testament apocalyptic
- Authorship, date, destination, occasion, setting, purpose
- A selection of historic and contemporary interpretations of Revelation
- The themes and theology of Revelation
- The English text of Revelation (Including exegesis of chapters 1-22)
Set Readings
This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.
Prescribed:
Bauckham, Richard J. The Theology of the Book of Revelation NTT (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Barr, David L., ed. Reading the Book of Revelation: A Resource for Students RBS44 (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003)
Wilson, Mark. The Victor Sayings in the Book of Revelation (Wipf and Stock, 2007)
Indicative:
Boxall, Ian. Revelation: Vision and Insight; An Introduction to the Apocalypse (London: SPCK, 2002)
Court, J. M. Revelation NTG (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994).
Faley, Roland J. Apocalypse Then and Now: A Companion to the Book of Revelation (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1999)
deSilva, David. Seeing Things John’s Way: The Rhetoric of the Book of Revelation (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2009
Farmer, Ronald L. Revelation CCT (St. Louis: Chalice, 2005)
Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schüssler. Revelation: Vision of a Just World PC (Minneapolis:Fortress, 1991)
Friesen, Steven J. Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Revelation in the Ruins. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Garrow, A. J. P. Revelation NTR. (London: Routledge, 1997)
Hemer, Colin J. The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting JSNTSup 11 (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1986)
Johns, Loren L. The Lamb Christology of the Apocalypse of John WUNT 167 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1998)
King, Karen L. The Secret Revelation of John (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006)
Koester, Craig. Revelation and the End of All Things (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001)
Mangina, Joseph. Revelation BTCB (Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2009)
Murphy, Frederick J. Fallen Is Babylon: The Revelation to John NTC (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1998)
Noel, Ted. A Primer on the Book of Revelation (Eugene, OR: Resource, 2010)
O’Leary, Stephen D. Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994)
Pate, Marvin. The Writings of John: A Survey of the Gospel, Epistles, and Apocalypse (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011)
Prévost, Jean-Pierre. How to Read the Apocalypse (New York: Crossroad, 1993)
Resseguie, James L. The Revelation of John: A Narrative Commentary (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009)
Schmidt, Frederick W. Conversations with Scripture: Revelation AABSSS (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse, 2005)
Thompson, Leonard L. Revelation ANTC (Nashville: Abingdon, 1998)
Trafton, Joseph. Reading Revelation: A Literary and Theological Commentary (Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2005)
Walhout, Edwin. Revelation Down to Earth: Making Sense of the Apocalypse of John (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000)
Woodman, Simon P. The Book of Revelation SCMCT (London: SCM, 2008)
Worth, Roland H., Jr. The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Greco-Asian Culture (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1999)
Wilson, Mark. Charts on the Book of Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2007)