__Critically Acclaimed Commentaries from Today's Top Scholars__   
This addition to the Paideia commentary series examines the cultural context and theological meaning of Revelation. Sigve Tonstad, an expert in the early Jewish context of the New Testament, offers a nonretributive reading of Revelation and addresses the issue of divine violence.  
  
Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by:  
  
• Attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the text employs  
• Showing how the text shapes theological convictions and moral habits  
• Commenting on the final, canonical form of each New Testament book  
• Focusing on the cultural, literary, and theological settings of the text  
• Making judicious use of photos and sidebars in a reader-friendly format  
  
"Tonstad's remarkable commentary offers a comprehensive reading of Revelation that is both literarily sensitive and theologically incisive. With careful attention to the text's engagement with Israel's scriptures, Tonstad interprets Revelation as a christologically centered disclosure of the astonishing, counterintuitive triumph of God's love over the cosmic power of evil. This deeply intelligent commentary challenges historicist readings of the book as a simple document of political resistance to the Roman Empire. At the same time, it grapples thoughtfully with pervasive misreadings of Revelation--both in the Christian theological tradition and in Western literary culture more broadly--as a fountainhead of resentment and violence. All who read this commentary will be forced to reconsider what they think they know about the Apocalypse. Let anyone who has an ear listen."  
--__Richard B. Hays__, George Washington Ivey Professor Emeritus of New Testament, Duke Divinity School  
  
"Well-written, accessible, and wise, Tonstad's commentary navigates a myriad of issues that either put off or entice readers about the enigma that is Revelation. Situating Revelation among its Reformation skeptics, its modern naysayers, and its more sensationalist interpreters, Tonstad reads the Apocalypse in terms of the cosmic conflict in which God's decisive response to the evil of the great Deceiver is to offer revelation and witness as the antidote. Full of macro- and micro-level insights along with clear and helpful theological analysis, this volume is a welcome addition to the Paideia series."  
--__Darian Lockett__, associate professor of New Testament, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University

__Sigve K. Tonstad__ (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is professor of religion and assistant professor of medicine at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California. He is the author of several books, most recently The Letter to the Romans: Paul among the Ecologists.

This practical commentary on Revelation is conversant with contemporary scholarship, draws on ancient backgrounds, and attends to the theological nature of the text. Sigve Tonstad, an expert in the early Jewish context of the New Testament, offers a nonretributive reading of Revelation and addresses the issue of divine violence. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the text employs, showing how the text shapes moral habits, and making judicious use of photos and sidebars in a reader-friendly format.

A practical commentary on Revelation that is conversant with contemporary scholarship, draws on ancient backgrounds, and attends to the theological nature of the texts.

Tonstad, Sigve K.

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\["For readers with an interest with textual analysis","This Paideia commentary shows how the text shapes faith","You'll discover in Revelation a wealth of written and rhetorical fascination"\]

List of Figures

Foreword

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Revelation 1:1–20 Incentive to Read

Revelation 2:1–3:22 To the One Who Has an Ear

Revelation 4:1–8:1 The Seven Seals

Revelation 8:2–11:19 The Seven Trumpets

Revelation 12:1–14:20 The Cosmic Conflict from A to Z

Revelation 15:1–16:21 The Seven Bowls

Revelation 17:1–18:24 The Woman and the Beast

Revelation 19:1–21 The Wedding, the Rider, and the Supper

Revelation 20:1–15 The Thousand Years and Then

Revelation 21:1–27 Journey’s End

Revelation 22:1–21 The Healing of the Nations

Bibliography

Index of Subjects

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Scripture and Ancient Sources

"Tonstad's remarkable commentary offers a comprehensive reading of Revelation that is both literarily sensitive and theologically incisive. With careful attention to the text's engagement with Israel's scriptures, Tonstad interprets Revelation as a christologically centered disclosure of the astonishing, counterintuitive triumph of God's love over the cosmic power of evil. This deeply intelligent commentary challenges historicist readings of the book as a simple document of political resistance to the Roman Empire. At the same time, it grapples thoughtfully with pervasive misreadings of Revelation--both in the Christian theological tradition and in Western literary culture more broadly--as a fountainhead of resentment and violence. All who read this commentary will be forced to reconsider what they think they know about the Apocalypse. Let anyone who has an ear listen." - Richard B. Hays, George Washington Ivey Professor Emeritus of New Testament, Duke Divinity School

"Well-written, accessible, and wise, Tonstad's commentary navigates a myriad of issues that either put off or entice readers about the enigma that is Revelation. Situating Revelation among its Reformation skeptics, its modern naysayers, and its more sensationalist interpreters, Tonstad reads the apocalypse in terms of the cosmic conflict in which God's decisive response to the evil of the great Deceiver is to offer revelation and witness as the antidote. Full of macro- and micro-level insights along with clear and helpful theological analysis, this volume is a welcome addition to the Paideia series." - Darian Lockett, associate professor of New Testament, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University

Giving you the tools for unpicking the meanings of the ancient text, this Paideia commentary looks the book of Revelation and it's remarkable Jewish echoes.

Revelation (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament)

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