Foreword to the English edition
Preface to the English edition
Foreword to the French edition
Preface to the French edition
Methodological introduction
Part One: God reveals himself
Introduction to Part One
1. Divinity and pseudo-divinity
2. True sovereignty and usurped claims
Historical detour 1: Is daily life in Asia's cities accessible?
Historical detour 2: Is the sea monster decipherable?
Historical detour 3: Is christological parody decodable?
3. Legitimate adoration and bogus worship
Historical detour 4: Is political parody detectable?
Historical detour 5: Is the bogus worship identifiable?
Conclusion to Part One
Part Two: Humanity finds itself
Introduction to Part Two
4. Genuine testimony and counter-proclamation
5. Faithful belonging and counter-allegiance
6. Bride-city and whore-city
Historical detour 6: Is 'Babylon' translatable by Rome?
Historical detour 7: Is the woman of Revelation 12
identifiable?
Conclusion to Part Two
Part Three: When God and Humanity meet
Introduction to Part Three
7. Broken covenant and new covenant
Historical detour 8: Is an economic critique of Rome plausible?
Conclusion to Part Three
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index of passages in Revelation
Index of other Biblical references
Index of references to ancient literature
Thematic Index
Author Index
Gordon Campbell is a minister in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and principal of Union Theological College, Belfast, where he is also Head of Biblical Studies. The Book of Revelation has been the focus of much of his research and remains his special interest.
'...[Reading Revelation] provides many fresh insights. What
Campbell has offered, is a complete and coherent biblical theology
of Revelation, undoubtedly fruitful to use for theological
students, teachers and researchers, so that contemporary readers
become competent readers...'
Rob Van Houwelingen, European Journal of Theology, April 2013.
'Gordon Campbell's impressive study... is a masterful
interpretation, detailed and rigorous.'
Ian Boxall, The Expository Times, Volume 125, No.2, November
2013
'Campbell's approach is to seek an understanding of Revelation from
within the text itself, rooted as it is in both the Old and New
Testament Scriptures. [...] He discerns a number of themes running
through Revelation which bind the book into a coherent literary
work rather than a collection of disparate elements or detailed
prophecy of the future.'
David McKay, Reformed Theological Journal, 2013 Issue
[Reading Revelation] offers fresh understandings of Revelation. Its
copious endnotes, rich bibliography, indexes of Revelation
passages, other biblical references, ancient Greco-Roman
literature, and themes enable the reader to cross-check the
meanings of a specific text or a vision or an event. Readers will
find this carefully researched work enlightening and
rewarding."
Daniel Jeyaraj, Liverpool Hope University, in Theological Book
Review (tbr), Vol. 25, No.1, 2013
"Gordon Campbell has written a comprehensive and useful analysis of
John's Apocalypse [...] Campbell's reading of Revelation is
intrusive at many points and will prove useful to
students of the Apocalypse who have long pined for a fresh
perspective on this perplexing book."
Andrew R. Guffey, Modern Believing vol 56, issue 1, January 2015
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