In most homiletics courses it is drummed into the aspiring preacher that a text out of context is a pretext. Prof. Dumbrell has sought to set Revelation 21-22 in its widest context in order to provide its fullest meaning. He shows the section is not only an appropriate way of concluding the Book of Revelation, but indeed provides the proper conclusion for the entire Bible. He does this by observing the use of the main literary motifs in the passage. As such this is an important work, being one of the first full-length treatments on the use of motifs. He gives substance to Michael Fishbane's contention (Texts and Texture: Close Readings of Selected Biblical Texts [New York: Schoken Books, 1979]) that recurrent motifs are what gives the Bible its coherence.

The End of the Beginning: Revelation 21-22 and the Old Testament

Dumbrell, William

Religion & Spirituality

Anzea Publishers

<p>Revelation offers a new way of viewing the world...When humans reject the divine order they misuse creation and thereby break the covenant with creation. The results of the breach of covenant include disease, suffering, famine and deprivation...Revelation is the unfolding of the significance of the cross through the witness of Jesus given by those who belong to him...The death, resurrection and ascension of the witnesses (the church) identify them as the covenant people of God re-acting the full ministry of Jesus...To each church the message is the same: believers can only enter the new Jerusalem by faithfulness unto death...Evil, conquered by the cross, will finally be eliminated from human experience. New covenant believers will therefore experience the divine purpose and provision of life in a new Eden. --from William Dumbrell's New Covenant Commentary</p>

Revelation: Visions for Today: A New Covenant Commentary

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The End of the Beginning: Revelation 21-22 and the Old Testament

Revelation: Visions for Today: A New Covenant Commentary