1.) Select a passage from the Book of Revelation (a link is in the Required Readings section for this week) and copy it below. Then do a detail-oriented close read of your selected passage. (Here (Links to an external site.) is a strong resource for learning how to do a close read.)
Focus especially on the concepts that I introduced in the lecture (e.g. mystery, spectacle, drama, new beginnings, the hybridity of monsters, the rage of desecration.) Does Timothy Beale’s quote, “It is a revelation of something that defies its own revelation” apply to your selected passage?
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2.) Talk about the notion of apocalypse and its role in contemporary culture. Is still as prominent in the popular imagination as it has been historically?
How do the apocalyptic scenarios and prophecies of today relate to those that I outlined in my lecture? Refer to specific examples.
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