"La crítica de Juan sobre Roma [en el Apocalipsis]... hizo más que dar voz a la protesta de los grupos explotados, oprimidos y perseguidos por Roma. También exigió de ellos que pudieran compartir sus bienes, aliarse con las víctimas y llegar a ser víctimas ellos mismos. Sin embargo, a quienes desde la perspectiva de la tierra y el mar fueron víctimas de Roma, Juan los vio desde la perspectiva del cielo para ser los verdaderos vencedores." Richard Bauckham, The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1993, p. 378.
Richard Bauckham on the Structure of Revelation December 15, 2018 by Brian Bauckham, Richard. “Structure and Composition.” In Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation . New York: T&T Clark, 1993. Richard Bauckham has proposed the most convincing structure of Revelation among the proposals that I’ve surveyed. Bookending the whole are a prologue (1:1-8) and an epilogue (22:6-21). The major divisions of the book are signaled by the use of “in the Spirit” (1:10; 4:2;17:3; 21:10), resulting in the following structure: 1:9-3:22—”vision of the risen who gives the seven messages to the churches 4:1-16:21—”vision of heaven…from which develops the whole sequence of judgments” 17:1-21:8—the fall of Babylon though the coming down of the NewJerusalem 21:9-22:9—the New Jerusalem (pp. 3-4) Within this structure there are other substructures and linkages. For instance parallel wording in 17:1-19:10 and 21:9-22:9 (particularly at the begi...
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