A History of the End of the World (46 page)

51.
Rev. 14:9 (KJV).

52.
Rev. 14:9–10 (RSV; adapted).

53.
Rev. 16:2 (RSV).

54.
Rev. 19:20 (KJV).

55.
Rev. 13:16–17 (RSV; emphasis added).

56.
Ladd,
Revelation of John,
178.

57.
Ladd,
Revelation of John,
185.

58.
Ladd,
Revelation of John
, citing 3 Macc. 2:29. See also Ford,
Revelation,
116–17.

59.
Quoted in Ford,
Revelation,
117.

60.
Mark 11:15 (RSV).

61.
Mark 11:17 (KJV).

62.
Rev. 18:11 (RSV).

63.
Rev. 18:12–13 (RSV).

64.
Rev. 21:8 (KJV).

65.
Rev. 18:15, 18:17–19, 18:22 (RSV; adapted).

66.
Matt. 10:9–11 (RSV; adapted).

67.
David Aune, quoted in Yarbro Collins,
Crisis and Catharsis,
45.

68.
Matt. 8:20 (RSV).

69.
Yarbro Collins,
Crisis and Catharsis,
102–3, describing the theories of J. N. Saunders.

70.
Paraphrased in Yarbro Collins,
Crisis and Catharsis,
35.

71.
Schüssler Fiorenza,
Book of Revelation,
144.

72.
Rev. 2:2 (RSV).

73.
Rev. 2:6 (KJV).

74.
Rev. 2:19, 2:20 (RSV; adapted).

75.
Num 22:23 ff.

76.
2 Kings 9:22 (JPS).

77.
Acts 15:20 (RSV).

78.
Rev. 3:16–17 (NKJ; adapted)

79.
Rev. 2:14, 2:20 (KJV).

80.
Adela Yarbro Collins, “Revelation, Book of,” in Freedman,
Anchor Bible Dictionary,
5:705.

81.
Schüssler Fiorenza,
Book of Revelation,
15.

82.
Rev. 2:18, 2:21–23 (NKJ, KJV, RSV; adapted).

83.
Rev. 2:15 (KJV), 2:24 (RSV).

84.
Acts 6:5.

85.
Schüssler Fiorenza,
Apocalypse,
48–49. See also Adela Yarbro Collins, “The Book of Revelation,” in Collins,
Origins of Apocalypticism,
392.

86.
Barclay,
Letters,
66.

87.
Schüssler Fiorenza,
Apocalypse,
48–49 (“social, political and commercial life”); Schüssler Fiorenza,
Book of Revelation,
195 (“code names”).

88.
Rev. 14:4 (RSV).

89.
Rev. 14:4 (RSV).

90.
Rev. 7:3, 14:4 (RSV).

91.
Rev. 14:4 (NKJ).

92.
Adela Yarbro Collins, “The Book of Revelation,” in Collins,
Origins of Apocalypticism,
407, quoting 1 Enoch 10:11 (adapted).

93.
Lev. 15:18 (RSV).

94.
Adela Yarbro Collins, “The Book of Revelation,” in Collins,
Origins of Apocalypticism,
405.

95.
Yarbro Collins,
Crisis and Catharsis,
159.

96.
Quoted in Yarbro Collins,
Crisis and Catharsis,
169.

97.
Rev. 17:4 (RSV; adapted).

98.
Rev. 13:18 (KJV).

99.
Rev. 13:17, 13:18 (KJV; adapted).

100.
Rev. 17:3 (KJV).

101.
Rev. 17:7 (RSV).

102.
Rev. 17:8 (RSV).

103.
Rev. 17:8 (RSV).

104.
Rowley,
Relevance of Apocalyptic,
130 n. 2.

105.
Rev. 2:10 (KJV).

106.
Rev. 13:7 (RSV).

107.
Rev. 13:15 (RSV).

108.
Rev. 6:9 (RSV).

109.
Rev. 2:13 (RSV; adapted).

110.
Yarbro Collins,
Crisis and Catharsis,
102.

111.
Quoted in Schüssler Fiorenza,
Book of Revelation,
193.

112.
Quoted in Schüssler Fiorenza,
Book of Revelation,
193.

113.
Rev. 21:1 (KJV).

114.
Schüssler Fiorenza,
Apocalypse,
45.

115.
Quoted in Yarbro Collins,
Crisis and Catharsis,
69.

116.
Yarbro Collins,
Crisis and Catharsis,
71 (emphasis added).

117.
Bernard McGinn, “Introduction: John’s Apocalypse and the Apocalyptic Mentality,” in Emmerson and McGinn,
Apocolypse,
13.

118.
Gibbon,
Decline and Fall,
1:420–21.

119.
Ladd,
Revelation of John,
9, citing Tacitus.

120.
Adela Yarbro Collins, “Revelation, Book of,” in Freedman,
Anchor Bible Dictionary,
5:706.

121.
Ladd,
Revelation of John,
104.

122.
Yarbro Collins,
Crisis and Catharsis,
94.

123.
Adela Yarbro Collins, “Revelation, Book of,” in Freedman,
Anchor Bible Dictionary,
5:705.

124.
John J. Collins, “From Prophecy to Apocalypticism: The Expectation of the End,” in Collins,
Origins of Apocalypticism,
144.

125.
Rev. 16:14 (KJV); Rev. 18:20 (NKJ).

126.
Rev. 17:14, 1:16 (KJV).

127.
Rev. 18:14, 14:13 (NKJ).

128.
Rev. 19:2 (RSV).

129.
Rev. 13:10 (RSV; adapted).

130.
Rev. 3:9 (RSV; adapted).

131.
Gen. 2:2 (KJV).

132.
Rev. 10:5-6 (KJV, RSV; adapted).

133.
Ezek. 2:10–11 (KJV; adapted).

134.
Rev. 10:9 (KJV); Rev. 10:10–11 (RSV).

135.
Stendahl, quoted in Schüssler Fiorenza,
Book of Revelation,
197.

136.
Stendahl, quoted in Schüssler Fiorenza,
Book of Revelation,
135.

137.
Quoted in Schüssler Fiorenza,
Book of Revelation,
136.

138.
2 Kings 23:5 (TNK).

139.
Rev. 12:9 (KJV).

140.
Rev. 12:5 (KJV).

141.
Farrer,
Rebirth of Images,
141.

142.
Ford,
Revelation,
188.

143.
Adela Yarbro Collins, “The Book of Revelation,” in Collins,
Origins of Apocalypticism,
408.

144.
Schüssler Fiorenza,
Apocalypse,
30 (adapted).

145.
Isa. 27:1 (TNK).

146.
Adela Yarbro Collins, “The Book of Revelation,” in Collins,
Origins of Apocalypticism,
394.

147.
Rev. 12:12 (KJV).

148.
Dan. 2:28 (KJV).

149.
Rev. 1:10–11 (KJV).

150.
Rev. 1:13–14, 1:16, 1:17 (RSV).

151.
Rev. 1:11, 1:19 (RSV; adapted).

152.
Rev. 22:10, 22:19.

153.
Richard K. Emmerson, “Introduction: The Apocalypse in Medieval Culture,” in Emmerson and McGinn,
Apocalypse,
330.

154.
Quoted in Cohn-Sherbok and Cohn-Sherbok,
Jewish and Christian Mysticism,
104 (adapted).

155.
Quoted in Richard K. Emmerson, “Introduction: The Apocalypse in Medieval Culture,” in Emmerson and McGinn,
Apocalypse,
298.

156.
Graves,
White Goddess,
344–45.

157.
Graves,
White Goddess,
345.

158.
Yarbro Collins,
Crisis and Catharsis,
154.

159.
Rev. 3:13 (KJV).

160.
Quoted in de la Bedoyere,
Meddlesome Friar,
204 (adapted).

161.
Yarbro Collins,
Crisis and Catharsis,
155 (adapted).

162.
Rev. 1:1 (KJV).

163.
Rev. 22:7 (KJV).

164.
John J. Collins, Bernard McGinn, and Stephen J. Stein, “General Introduction,” in Collins,
Origins of Apocalypticism,
x.

CHAPTER 4: THE APOCALYPTIC INVASION

1.
Quoted in Bernard McGinn, “Revelation,” in Alter and Kermode,
Literary Guide,
523.

2.
Matt. 5:44 (KJV; adapted).

3.
Rev. 19:13–14 (RSV).

4.
Rev. 19:15, 19:17, 19:18 (RSV). The Greek text refers to “birds,” but some translations render the word as “vultures” because John clearly refers to carrion eaters.

5.
Matt. 25:40 (KJV).

6.
Rev. 14:4 (RSV).

7.
Rev. 20:12 (RSV).

8.
Rev. 21:8 (RSV).

9.
Schüssler Fiorenza,
Book of Revelation,
24.

10.
Quoted in Schüssler Fiorenza,
Apocalypse,
8.