The Book of Revelation

by Richard Bauckham

2025-03-25 12:11 Pages 6

J.J. Collins defines the literary genre apocalypse in this way:

‘Apocalypse’ is a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal, insofar as it envisages eschatological salvation, and spatial, insofar as it involves another, supernatural world.