Intertextual Comparison

Question 1

‘Double’ - OT vs NT

Answer 1

Rev - ‘Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works’
Exodus - ‘an eye for an eye’

Question 2

The Horses

Answer 2

Parody of the four horses of the ‘four spirits of the heavens’ in Zechariah

Question 3

Imagery of Babylon

Answer 3

Recalls OT idolatory comparisons to prostitution

Question 4

Parallelism between Rev 4 and Rev 5

Answer 4

Suggests God and Jesus are equal in position - overturning OT

Question 5

What may have inspired Revelations?

Answer 5

The destruction in the Jewish War

Question 6

John Court

Answer 6

Argues that the God of Revelation is the ‘judge’ of the OT

Question 7

Earthquakes

Answer 7

Reuses apocalyptic images from Mark and Luke (though on cosmic scale)

Question 8

Epistolary form

Answer 8

Recollects St Paul’s epistles; Revelation has knowledge of Christianity as a religion with the potential to spread as opposed to local/closed nature of Gospels and OT

Question 9

‘Rise, and measure the temple of God’

Answer 9

Reflects Exodus building of the Temple