SOURCE: Thompson, Leonard L. “Historical Setting and Genre,” “The Social Setting of Apocalypses,” and “The Seer's Vision of an Unbroken World.” In The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and Empire, pp. 11-34; 74-93. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
In the following essays, Thompson provides background on the apocalypse genre and its social setting and discusses the seer's vision of the world and its boundaries.
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