Revelation 5 and 19 as Literary Reciprocals
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My colleague Kenneth A. Strand and I have published previously in A USS two studies on the literary form of Rev 18.' In those two studies, that chapter was found to be a discrete literary unit consisting of seven hymns of judgment upon the impure woman of the prophecy, called "Babylon the Great." These seven hymns are distributed in chiastic order according to both their form (Shea) and their theological content (Strand). I take that conclusion about Rev 18 as the starting point for the following discussion of Rev 19.
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