The Bible for the Curious - A Brief Encounter - Philip R. Davies†
10. Revelation: The End of the Story
The Bible for the Curious - A Brief Encounter - Philip R. Davies†
Philip R. Davies† [+]
University of Sheffield, (Emeritus)
Philip R. Davies, who died in 2018, was Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield. Educated at Oxford and St Andrews, Scotland, he edited, authored or co-authored 37 books on the Dead Sea Scrolls and various aspects of interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, including In Search of Ancient Israel (1992), Whose Bible Is It Anyway? (1995), Scribes and Schools: The Canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures (1998), The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2002) and Memories of Ancient Israel: An Introduction to Biblical History (2008). He was co-founder of Sheffield Academic Press and former President of the British Society for Old Testament Study and European Association of Biblical Studies.
Description
‘The revelation (apokalypsis) of Jesus Christ, which God … made known by sending his angel to his servant John’. This is how the book of Revelation opens, and John later describes himself as an ‘elder’ living on the island of Patmos. Though popular with several contemporary evangelical Christians, this curious book was only with difficulty accepted in the New Testament canon.