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Few scholars on the book of Revelation can match Andrew R. Guffey's sensitive appreciation of its visual character. In this beautifully-written monograph, Guffey engages broader scholarship on image and visuality, laying out a robust challenge to exegetes: to focus less on precise sources such as Roman coins or monumental buildings than on analogues from John's cultural milieu; to 'unlearn' long-established patterns of reading the Apocalypse which tend towards decoding John's images at the expense of appreciating their aesthetic power. Instead, Guffey refocuses the crucial question: what is an apocalyptic 'image', and what does it do? This is an important book, which will revolutionize how scholars speak about the 'visuality' of this most visual of biblical texts. -- Ian Boxall, The Catholic University of America

Few scholars on the book of Revelation can match Andrew R. Guffey's sensitive appreciation of its visual character. In this beautifully-written monograph, Guffey engages broader scholarship on image and visuality, laying out a robust challenge to exegetes: to focus less on precise sources such as Roman coins or monumental buildings than on analogues from John's cultural milieu; to `unlearn' long-established patterns of reading the Apocalypse which tend towards decoding John's images at the expense of appreciating their aesthetic power. Instead, Guffey refocuses the crucial question: what is an apocalyptic `image', and what does it do? This is an important book, which will revolutionize how scholars speak about the `visuality' of this most visual of biblical texts. -- Ian Boxall, The Catholic University of America

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Andrew R. Guffey is visiting instructor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.

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