The Shape of the Apocalypse: Fresh Literary/Rhetorical/Narrative Structural Studies on the Book of Revelation
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (14 February 2024) | Viewed by 200
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Book of Revelation can be studied using numerous historical hermeneutical approaches, as well as being applied to many more contemporary contexts and social issues. All such endeavors, however, inevitably involve greater or lesser proportions of subjectivity.
Certainly, seeking to understand the wider structure of the apocalypse does not in any way guarantee accurate exegesis of the various parts of the text in question. However, much as putting together the corner and edge pieces of a jigsaw puzzle first makes it considerably easier to assemble the rest of the pieces, so will carefully attempting to determine the overall or sectional structures of Revelation provide a “frame” within which to make better—and at least potentially less subjective—exegetical decisions regarding the individual pericopes of the book.
Accordingly, we are pleased to invite you, current or former research interest in the Book of Revelation, as demonstrated by publication history, to submit an article manuscript for review for possible inclusion in the forthcoming Special Issue of Religions on the structure of the Apocalypse. As you perhaps know, Religions is an international, open-access scholarly journal, publishing peer-reviewed studies of religious thought and practice. It is available online and promotes critical, hermeneutical, historical, and constructive conversations. Religions aims to serve the interests of a wide range of thoughtful readers and academic scholars of religion, as well as theologians, philosophers, social scientists, anthropologists, psychologists, neuroscientists and all others interested in advancing the multidisciplinary study of religion.
This Special Issue fits within the research realm of theology, specifically biblical studies. It is envisioned that the bulk of the studies submitted will reflect research on the biblical text, whether related to the structure of the entire Book of Revelation, one of its sections, textual patterns or phenomena found in various places in the book. However, critiques of the weaknesses or oversights of previously published textual or narrative structures of Revelation are also suggested, as are historical studies on how the text of the Apocalypse has been viewed in various eras or theological or church communities.
We request that, prior to sending in a full article manuscript, you initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 200–300 words summarizing your proposed contribution. Please send it to me, the Guest Editor ([email protected]), and CC the Assistant Editor, Ms. Joyce Xi ([email protected]). I will review each abstract for the purpose of ensuring that it properly fits within the scope of this Special Issue. All full manuscripts will undergo double-blind review.
We look forward to your contribution!
Sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Boyd Luter
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Book of Revelation
- apocalypse
- literary structure
- rhetorical structure
- narrative structure
- macrostructure
- parallelism
- chiasm
- inclusion/bookending
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