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100 1  Beal, Timothy K.|q(Timothy Kandler),|d1963-|eauthor. 
245 14 The Book of Revelation :|ba biography /|cTimothy Beal. 
264  1 Princeton, N.J. :|bPrinceton University Press,|c[2018] 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    xv, 265 pages :|billustrations ;|c20 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Lives of great religious books 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Introduction -- Pale Rider: Obscure origins -- Apocalypse 
       not now: Augustine's tale of two cities -- Cry out and 
       write: Hildegard's Apocalypse -- Mind's eye: Joachim in 
       the forests of history -- September's testament: Luther's 
       Bible vs Cranach's Revelation -- New world of gods and 
       monsters: othering other religions -- Heaven in a garage: 
       James Hampton's throne room -- Left behind, again: the 
       rise and fall of evangelical rapture horror culture -- 
       Post script: Revelation becomes us. 
520    Few 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. 
630 00 Bible.|pRevelation|xCriticism, interpretation, etc. 
630 07 Bible.|pRevelation.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01892943 
655  7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411635 
830  0 Lives of great religious books ;|v29. 
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