A History of the End of the World

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70. Paraphrased in Yarbro Collins, Crisis and Catharsis, 35.

71. Schussler Fiorenza, Book of Revelation, 144.

72. Rev. 2:2 (RSV).

73. Rev. 2:6 (KJV).

74. Rev. 2:19, 2:20 (RSV; adapted).

75. Num 22:23 ff.

76. 2 Kings 9:22 (JPS).

77. Acts 15:20 (RSV).

78. Rev. 3:16–17 (NKJ; adapted)

79. Rev. 2:14, 2:20 (KJV).

80. Adela Yarbro Collins, “Revelation, Book of,” in Freedman, Anchor Bible Dictionary, 5:705.

81. Schussler Fiorenza, Book of Revelation, 15.

82. Rev. 2:18, 2:21–23 (NKJ, KJV, RSV; adapted).

83. Rev. 2:15 (KJV), 2:24 (RSV).

84. Acts 6:5.

85. Schussler Fiorenza, Apocalypse, 48–49. See also Adela Yarbro Collins, “The Book of Revelation,” in Collins, Origins of Apocalypticism, 392.

86. Barclay, Letters, 66.

87. Schussler Fiorenza, Apocalypse, 48–49 (“social, political and commercial life”); Schussler Fiorenza, Book of Revelation, 195 (“code names”).

88. Rev. 14:4 (RSV).

89. Rev. 14:4 (RSV).

90. Rev. 7:3, 14:4 (RSV).

91. Rev. 14:4 (NKJ).

92. Adela Yarbro Collins, “The Book of Revelation,” in Collins, Origins of Apocalypticism, 407, quoting 1 Enoch 10:11 (adapted).

93. Lev. 15:18 (RSV).

94. Adela Yarbro Collins, “The Book of Revelation,” in Collins, Origins of Apocalypticism, 405.

95. Yarbro Collins, Crisis and Catharsis, 159.

96. Quoted in Yarbro Collins, Crisis and Catharsis, 169.

97. Rev. 17:4 (RSV; adapted).

98. Rev. 13:18 (KJV).

99. Rev. 13:17, 13:18 (KJV; adapted).

100. Rev. 17:3 (KJV).

101. Rev. 17:7 (RSV).

102. Rev. 17:8 (RSV).

103. Rev. 17:8 (RSV).

104. Rowley, Relevance of Apocalyptic, 130 n. 2.

105. Rev. 2:10 (KJV).

106. Rev. 13:7 (RSV).

107. Rev. 13:15 (RSV).

108. Rev. 6:9 (RSV).

109. Rev. 2:13 (RSV; adapted).

110. Yarbro Collins, Crisis and Catharsis, 102.

111. Quoted in Schussler Fiorenza, Book of Revelation, 193.

112. Quoted in Schussler Fiorenza, Book of Revelation, 193.

113. Rev. 21:1 (KJV).

114. Schussler Fiorenza, Apocalypse, 45.

115. Quoted in Yarbro Collins, Crisis and Catharsis, 69.

116. Yarbro Collins, Crisis and Catharsis, 71 (emphasis added).

117. Bernard McGinn, “Introduction: John’s Apocalypse and the Apocalyptic Mentality,” in Emmerson and McGinn, Apocolypse, 13.

118. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, 1:420–21.

119. Ladd, Revelation of John, 9, citing Tacitus.

120. Adela Yarbro Collins, “Revelation, Book of,” in Freedman, Anchor Bible Dictionary, 5:706.

121. Ladd, Revelation of John, 104.

122. Yarbro Collins, Crisis and Catharsis, 94.

123. Adela Yarbro Collins, “Revelation, Book of,” in Freedman, Anchor Bible Dictionary, 5:705.

124. John J. Collins, “From Prophecy to Apocalypticism: The Expectation of the End,” in Collins, Origins of Apocalypticism, 144.

125. Rev. 16:14 (KJV); Rev. 18:20 (NKJ).

126. Rev. 17:14, 1:16 (KJV).

127. Rev. 18:14, 14:13 (NKJ).

128. Rev. 19:2 (RSV).

129. Rev. 13:10 (RSV; adapted).

130. Rev. 3:9 (RSV; adapted).

131. Gen. 2:2 (KJV).

132. Rev. 10:5-6 (KJV, RSV; adapted).

133. Ezek. 2:10–11 (KJV; adapted).

134. Rev. 10:9 (KJV); Rev. 10:10–11 (RSV).

135. Stendahl, quoted in Schussler Fiorenza, Book of Revelation, 197.

136. Stendahl, quoted in Schussler Fiorenza, Book of Revelation, 135.

137. Quoted in Schussler Fiorenza, Book of Revelation, 136.

138. 2 Kings 23:5 (TNK).

139. Rev. 12:9 (KJV).

140. Rev. 12:5 (KJV).

141. Farrer, Rebirth of Images, 141.

142. Ford, Revelation, 188.

143. Adela Yarbro Collins, “The Book of Revelation,” in Collins, Origins of Apocalypticism, 408.

144. Schussler Fiorenza, Apocalypse, 30 (adapted).

145. Isa. 27:1 (TNK).

146. Adela Yarbro Collins, “The Book of Revelation,” in Collins, Origins of Apocalypticism, 394.

147. Rev. 12:12 (KJV).

148. Dan. 2:28 (KJV).

149. Rev. 1:10–11 (KJV).

150. Rev. 1:13–14, 1:16, 1:17 (RSV).

151. Rev. 1:11, 1:19 (RSV; adapted).

152. Rev. 22:10, 22:19.

153. Richard K. Emmerson, “Introduction: The Apocalypse in Medieval Culture,” in Emmerson and McGinn, Apocalypse, 330.

154. Quoted in Cohn-Sherbok and Cohn-Sherbok, Jewish and Christian Mysticism, 104 (adapted).