Why Does the Lion Disappear in Revelation 5? Leonine Imagery in Early Jewish and Christian Literatures

Despite the extensive literature on the lamb image in the Apocalypse, the reasons why the seer shifted from a lion (Rev. 5.5) to a lamb (5.6) have not been fully addressed. The present study presents an overview of the lion image in various corpora of Early Jewish and Early Christian literature. Fro...
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Autor*in:

Strawn, Brent A. - 1970- [verfasserIn]

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E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2007

Schlagwörter:

Early Christian literature

Early Jewish literature

Revelation 5

Messiah-Christ figure

lamb

Lion

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha - London : Sage, 1987, 17(2007), 1, Seite 37-74

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:17 ; year:2007 ; number:1 ; pages:37-74

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DOI / URN:

10.1177/0951820707083881

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1777018757

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