James Tabor on the Book of Revelation
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2022 4:40 pm
2017 February Can a pre-Christian Version of the Book of Revelation Be Recovered?
2017 October Here It Is At Last: A Pre-Christian Version of the Book of Revelation! (?)
2020 July https://jamestabor.com/washed-in-the-bl ... mandments/
2017 October Here It Is At Last: A Pre-Christian Version of the Book of Revelation! (?)
2020 July https://jamestabor.com/washed-in-the-bl ... mandments/
- . I have argued elsewhere that the book of Revelation, in the heavily interpolated and redacted form we have, represents a Christian reworking of an underlying Jewish apocalypse that had originally nothing to do with Jesus. Rather, it was a Jewish apocalypse, recasting of the visions of the book of Daniel, much like 2 Esdras. For a summary of this view see [the two posts above]
I have another guest post over on Bart Ehrman’s blog. I encourage my readers to head over there and check it out:
Is the Book of Revelation a Revised Version of a non-Christian Apocalypse?
This post is a bit special in that it not only responds to the question in the title, but also offers you a hypothetical reconstruction of a pre-Jesus or pre-Christian text that you can download, read, and print out, available free as a PDF file at: https://jamestabor.com/academic-papers/
I think this is the pdf of the hypothetical reconstruction (under 'ON-LINE PUBLICATIONS' at that link)