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    Navigating Revelation: Charts for the Voyage: A Pedagogical Aid
    Navigating Revelation: Charts for the Voyage: A Pedagogical Aid
    Navigating Revelation: Charts for the Voyage: A Pedagogical Aid
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    Navigating Revelation: Charts for the Voyage: A Pedagogical Aid

    By Eugene E. Lemcio

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    Not a reference tool, this unique work is a teaching-learning guide to studying the Book of Revelation. The focus is on showing how rather than on telling that. Charts followed by leading questions and statements help both faculty and students to see how St. John adopted and adapted his sacred texts (as well as Jewish and Greco-Roman resources) in light of his convictions about and experience of Jesus. Noticing the dominance of words and themes leads one to discover the primary concerns of the Author and his readers. Observing how John internally arranged his visions provides a clue as to the kind of work it is and how it was meant to function.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWipf and Stock
    Release dateNov 3, 2011
    ISBN9781498269834
    Navigating Revelation: Charts for the Voyage: A Pedagogical Aid
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    Eugene E. Lemcio

    Eugene E. Lemcio is Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Seattle Pacific University, where he taught for thirty-six years. His writings about Canonical Hermeneutics, the Gospels, the Son of Man, and the Unifying Kerygma of the New Testament have appeared in leading academic publications. He is the author of Navigating Revelation: Charts for the Voyage: A Pedagogical Aid (2011) and >Travels with St. Mark: GPS for the Journey: A Pedagogical Aid (2012).

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      Filled not with answers but with questions, Lemcio’s “charts for the voyage” do little to illuminate. I therefore found its promise of a “pedagogical aid” to fall a little short.What the book does provide, however, is page after page of interesting study foundations, that can lead to some interesting research topics. If you are a serious student of Revelation and wish to work from a concise, visual picture of a few of the Apocalypse’s interrelations and derivations from other scripture, this is a great starting point. For that purpose, I definitely recommend it. Some interesting chart titles (with little commentary) to give you an idea of the book’s content:Revelation 6 & Isaiah 13: The Shaking of the FoundationsRevelation 8:1-5 & 1 Kings 18:16-40 (comparing Elijah’s contest with Baal to the 7th seal of Revelation)Revelation 12: Satan’s Fall in Jewish Apocalyptic (comparing to Isaiah, Ezekiel, 1 and 2 Enoch, and Life of Adam & Eve)Revelation 12 & Matthew 1-2 (Herod’s slaughter of the innocents and the dragon myth)

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    Navigating Revelation - Eugene E. Lemcio

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    Navigating Revelation

    Charts for the Voyage

    A Pedagogical Aid

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    Navigating Revelation

    Charts for the Voyage: A Pedagogical Aid

    Copyright © 2011 Eugene E. Lemcio. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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    Preface

    The image of the church as a vessel is an ancient one. If we examine her ship’s logs, it is clear that, during stormy voyages of the past two thousand years, she has had to navigate the cross currents of interpretation with instruments that have sometimes led to false sightings and dubious soundings.

    For some of those sailings, numerous cartographers have drawn contradictory maps in an attempt to journey safely (if not directly) from the past to the present and future. Given such a checkered itinerary, what makes me regard the following as an improvement over the others? In a word, they have been the results of preconceived notions and external schemes imposed upon the changing face of the ocean that is Revelation.

    Leaving aside the nautical metaphor, regarding the relation between this work and that of Mark Wilson’s Charts on the Book of Revelation: Literary, Historical, and Theological Perspectives, this may be said: Wilson emphasizes the first two aspects of the subtitle, while my effort focuses more on the literary and interpretive. While Wilson is useful as a reference tool, this book is designed more specifically as a teaching instrument. Of course, ideally, both can be used for different aspects of a complete study. So, rather than reinvent even some of Wilson’s wheels, I mean to complement them.

    The following charts are to be understood primarily as guides—as means, not as ends. Rather than providing a rigid structure for indoctrination and memorization, such tables (and the leading statements and questions which I have provided) should foster orderly and disciplined teaching and learning. The displays are of two kinds: one set (for example, numbers 1–7) provides data in categories that can be inferred because of their frequency or strategic nature (the subjective nature of this judgment being reduced by evidence and argument).

    Interspersed among the thirty-five charts (beginning with #8 and amounting to about a third of the total) are those that demonstrate systematic analysis (a taking apart) and synthesis (a putting together) by posing investigative questions long used in literature and journalism classes: Who? (agent: initiator or recipient), What? (action/event), When? (time), Where? (place), How? (means/manner/method/instrument), How Far/Many/Much? (scope/quantity), What Kind? (quality), Why? (purpose/cause), So What? (significance), etc.

    Using these categories enables analysis and synthesis to be comprehensive in that all aspects of a narrative or argument can be covered. At the same time, they make it possible for one to detect that which integrates the parts. Approaching literature in this way assists students to develop skills in comparison (noting similarities) and contrast (seeing differences). Applying such neutral classification helps to increase objectivity and to limit imposing agendas foreign to a text. No rigid sequence need be followed when employing the above. They can be freely re-ordered to achieve the

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