David Burr, trans. and ed., The Book of Revelation. (The Bible in Medieval Tradition.) Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2019. Paper. Pp. xv, 424. $65. ISBN: 978-0-8028-2226-0.

Abstract:Temporality in contemporary Kinshasa is of a very specific eschatological kind and takes its point of departure in the Bible, and more particularly in the Book of Revelation, which has become an omnipresent point of reference in Kinshasa's collective imagination. The lived-in time of everyday life in Kinshasa is projected against the canvas of the completion of everything, a completion which will be brought about by God. As such, the Book of Revelation is not only about doom and destruction, it is essentially also a book of hope. Yet the popular understanding of the Apocalypse very much centers on the omnipotent presence of evil. This article focuses on the impact of millennialism on the Congolese experience, in which daily reality is constantly translated into mythical and prophetic terms as apocalyptic interlude.

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Eugene Ulrich. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Col., 1999. xviii, 309 pp.

AJS Review ◽

10.1017/s0364009402250047 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 26 (01) ◽

pp. 121-123

Author(s):

Leonard J. Greenspoon

Keyword(s):

Dead Sea Scrolls ◽

Dead Sea ◽

Bible Studies ◽

Related Literature ◽

The Bible ◽

Grand Rapids ◽

The Dead

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American Dispensationalism’s Perpetually Imminent End Times* * Glenn W. Shuck, Marks of the Beast: The Left Behind Novels and the Struggle for Evangelical Identity. (New York: New York University Press, 2005), 273 pp., $20.00;Amy Johnson Frykholm, Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 224 pp., $35.00;Barbara R. Rossing, The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation. (Boulder, CO: Westview, 2004), 212 pp., $24.00;Timothy P. Weber, On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel’s Best Friend. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2004), 336 pp., $24.99.

The Journal of Religion ◽

10.1086/510650 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 87 (2) ◽

pp. 248-264 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jonathan R. Baer

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New York ◽

New York University ◽

Book Of Revelation ◽

The Road ◽

Oxford University ◽

Left Behind ◽

Grand Rapids ◽

Evangelical Identity ◽

On The Road ◽

End Times

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JONATHAN EDWARDS IN HIS TIME, AND IN OURS

Modern Intellectual History ◽

10.1017/s1479244304000228 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 387-398

Author(s):

DAVID D. HALL

Keyword(s):

Philosophy Of History ◽

Jonathan Edwards ◽

New Haven ◽

Yale University ◽

Indiana University ◽

The Past ◽

Princeton University ◽

The Bible ◽

Grand Rapids ◽

The World

George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003)Robert E. Brown, Jonathan Edwards and the Bible (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002)Avihu Zakai, Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History: The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003)Amy Plantinga Pauw, “The Supreme Harmony of All”: The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002)We play tricks on the past, but the past also plays tricks on us. We try to fool the past by reconstructing it in our own image, imposing order and significance on the untidy sources we depend upon. The trick the past plays on us is to remain defiantly strange, ever able to expose what it is that our gestures of sympathetic reconstruction have altered, ignored, or suppressed.

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