Hierarchy, Prophecy, and the Angelomorphic Spirit: A Contribution to the Study of the Book of Revelation’s Wirkungsgeschichte
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Thanks to the work of scholars such as Ulrich Luz and Dale C. Allison, Jr., Wirkungsgeschichte (usually rendered into English as “reception history”) has come to be regarded as a necessary part of biblical scholarship.1 Recent years have seen the publication of a volume on Revelation in the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture series, as well as of a book, authored by Judith Kovacs and Christopher Rowland, on the reception of Revelation in Christian tradition.2 In what follows, I propose an interpretation of several passages in Revelation that deal with πνεῦμα and prophecy. I explore the possible fusion of horizons between the views expressed in the book of Revelation at the end of the first cen-
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