The Child Snatched Away: Reading Revelation Through a Childist Lens.
A great deal of biblical interpretation over the past 30 years has focused upon imagery related to women in the book of Revelation. Very little scholarship has discussed children in Revelation, likely because there are very few in the Apocalypse. However, the limited passages in which children are p...
| Publicado en: | Biblical Interpretation Vol. 28; no. 5; pp. 658 - 677 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2020
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