"Live long in the land"
Scholars both recently and in the past have sought to bring out the theme of covenant or of a covenantal prophetic lawsuit in the book of Revelation and the seven messages specifically. Many of these studies rely on a comparison between common covenantal structures of the ancient Near East and Revel...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2014, Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 417-446 |
| Further subjects: | B
Laodicea
B Covenant B Revelation B Seven messages B Promised Land B Exile B use of the Old Testament |
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| Summary: | Scholars both recently and in the past have sought to bring out the theme of covenant or of a covenantal prophetic lawsuit in the book of Revelation and the seven messages specifically. Many of these studies rely on a comparison between common covenantal structures of the ancient Near East and Revelation. What these investigations overlook thus far is how the Old Testament allusions used in the seven messages of Revelation contribute to the covenantal nature of Revelation. Particularly, these allusions are thematically reminiscent of covenantal stipulations, curses, and blessings, as found in places such as the summary of Israel's covenant in Deuteronomy 27-30 (esp. 30:15-20). This article seeks to closely examine the Old Testament allusions in the seventh message to Laodicea (Rev 3:14-22) to demonstrate the covenantal thrust of these allusions and to trace this allusory theme to its theological function and intratextual fulfilment in Revelation 19-22. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC167282 |