Download or read book Revelation (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament) written by Sigve K. Tonstad and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical commentary on Revelation is conversant with contemporary scholarship, draws on ancient backgrounds, and attends to the theological nature of the text. Sigve Tonstad, an expert in the early Jewish context of the New Testament, offers a nonretributive reading of Revelation and addresses the issue of divine violence. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the text employs, showing how the text shapes moral habits, and making judicious use of photos and sidebars in a reader-friendly format.