The Book of Revelation and Early Jewish Textual Culture

Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- 1 The Scribal Apocalypse and Early Jewish Textual Culture -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Some Definitions and Terminology -- 1.3 Design of the Study -- 1.4 Need for the Study -- 1.4.1 Textual Pluriformity -- 1.4.1.1 Monoform Textual Traditions (Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic) -- 1.4.1.2 Text and Transmission of Scriptural Works -- 1.4.1.3 Marko Jauhiainen's Approach to Textual Data -- 1.4.1.4 Recent Developments -- 1.4.2 Techniques of Reuse -- 1.4.2.1 'Contextual Reuse' -- 1.4.2.2 Form vs. Function -- 1.4.2.3 Identifying Examples of Reuse -- 1.5 Conclusion -- 2 Textual Pluriformity in Jewish and Christian Antiquity -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Textual Pluriformity Before Qumran -- 2.3 Textual Pluriformity Witnessed at Qumran -- 2.3.1 Pluriform Scriptural Texts -- 2.3.2 Pesharim and 'Rewritten Bible' -- 2.3.3 Scriptural References -- 2.4 Pluriformity in Judaism at Large? -- 2.5 Textual Pluriformity in the New Testament -- 2.5.1 The Psalter in the Gospel of John -- 2.5.2 The Epistle to the Romans and Isaiah -- 2.5.3 Mark's Use of Isaiah -- 2.6 Textual Pluriformity, Material Culture, and Zechariah -- 2.6.1 The Book of the Twelve -- 2.6.2 Zechariah Among the Twelve -- 2.7 Possible Textual Sources for the Book of Revelation -- 2.8 The Text of the Book of Revelation -- 2.9 Conclusion -- 3 Borrowing Prophetic Words: Textual Form and Access to Traditions -- 3.1 Introduction -- Excursus 1: Michael Labahn and the Influence of Memory -- 3.2 The Textual Form of Zechariah in Revelation -- 3.2.1 Revelation 1.7 and Zechariah 12.10 (Daniel 7.13) -- 3.2.2 Revelation 5.6b and Zechariah 4.1048 -- 3.2.3 Revelation 6.1-8 and Zechariah 1.8 -- 6.1-5 -- 3.2.4 Revelation 11.2 and Zechariah 12.3