“ Young scholars, learning their historical method from Gospel scholars, often treat it as self-evident that the more skeptical they are toward their sources, the more rigorous will be their historical… Richard Bauckham
“ However it—or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces—can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform ev… Richard Bauckham
“ The first is rarely noticed. John’s work is highly unusual in the sheer prolific extent of its visual imagery. It is true that symbolic visions are typical of the genre. But in other apocalypses other… Richard Bauckham
“ The images of Revelation are symbols with evocative power inviting imaginative participation in the book’s symbolic world. But they do not work merely by painting verbal pictures. Their precise litera… Richard Bauckham
“ Thus Revelation seems to be an apocalyptic prophecy in the form of a circular letter to seven churches in the Roman province of Asia. Richard Bauckham
“ The alternative vision of the world which Revelation claims to be orientated to the truth is strongly theocentric Richard Bauckham
“ A second formal, literary difference between Revelation and the Jewish apocalypses is that, unlike the latter, Revelation is not pseudepigraphal. Richard Bauckham
“ All this – with much more in these chapters – makes up a wonderfully varied but coherent evocation of the biblical and theological meaning of the divine judgment John’s prophecy pronounces on Rome; bu… Richard Bauckham
“ The word ungodly and word-group in Jude...It describes, not theoretical atheism, but practical godlessness. Richard Bauckham
“ The method and conceptuality of the theology of Revelation are relatively different from the rest of the New Testament, but once they are appreciated in their own right, Revelation can be seen to be n… Richard Bauckham
“ Secondly, as we have already noticed, Revelation is saturated with verbal allusions to the Old Testament. These are not incidental but essential to the way meaning is conveyed. Without noticing some o… Richard Bauckham
“ Testimony should be treated as reliable until proved otherwise. First, trust the word of others, then doubt if there are good reasons for doing so. Richard Bauckham
“ Moreover, it unmasks this dominant construction of the world as an ideology of the powerful which serves to maintain their power. In its place, Revelation offers a different way of perceiving the worl… Richard Bauckham
“ The whole book of Revelation is a circular letter addressed to seven specific churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea (1:11; cf. 1:4; 22:16). They are probably na… Richard Bauckham
“ Misinterpretations of Revelation often begin by misconceiving the kind of book it is. Richard Bauckham
“ In the first place, John’s work is a prophetic apocalypse in that it communicates a disclosure of a transcendent perspective on this world. Richard Bauckham
“ Hence perhaps the most important contrast between the forces of evil and the army of the Lamb is the contrast between deceit and truth. Richard Bauckham
“ Revelation is a literary work composed with astonishing care and skill. We should certainly not doubt that John had remarkable visionary experiences, but he has transmuted them through what must have… Richard Bauckham
“ His task is to proclaim the fulfilment of what God had revealed to the prophets of the past. The whole book is saturated with allusions to Old Testament prophecy, though there are no formal quotations… Richard Bauckham
“ The proportion of visual symbolism in Revelation is greater than in almost any comparable apocalypse. But there are further differences beside the proportion. Symbolic visions in the apocalypses commo… Richard Bauckham
