Theology of Revelation Key Terms (Chapters 4-7)

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Across
  1. 1. a worldview or movement shaped by hope in divine intervention and final judgment
  2. 4. the discipline of studying manuscript variations to determine the most likely original form of a text
  3. 7. a small Aegean island where John was exiled that served as the setting for his visionary experience
  4. 9. the vivid verbal description of visual images
  5. 10. one of the oldest and most complete Greek Bibles containing Revelation
  6. 12. early third century papyrus fragments that preserve part of the text of Revelation
  7. 14. a divine message given through a human agent addressing present or future realities
  8. 16. unusual or nonstandard grammatical features in the Greek of Revelation
  9. 17. linguistic or syntactical features in Revelation that reflect the influence of the Septuagint
  10. 19. the mode of revealing divine truth through symbolic images often in first-person narrative
  11. 22. a letter addressed to multiple recipients typically read aloud in early church communities
  12. 25. professional associations tied to specific deities and the imperial cult
  13. 26. the primary mode of communication in Revelation which employs language that appeals to the senses and imagination of the reader
  14. 28. a fifth century biblical manuscript that contains the most valuable complete manuscript of Revelation
  15. 29. the set of books accepted by the Greek-speaking church which delayed accepting Revelation
  16. 30. the body of handwritten copies of Revelation passed down through history
Down
  1. 2. the way Revelation communicates through both visual and auditory imagery
  2. 3. a grammatical or stylistic feature in Greek influenced by Semitic languages (Hebrew or Aramaic)
  3. 5. one who receives and communicates visions from the divine realm
  4. 6. intentional disruption of expected grammatical structures to draw attention to key ideas or Old Testament allusions
  5. 8. a type of metaphor in which a comparison is implied rather than explicitly stated:
  6. 11. a concept in Greek grammar that reflects the author's perspective on the action rather than its timing
  7. 13. the study of how a text has been read interpreted and used by different communities over time
  8. 15. the worship of Roman emperors as divine figures
  9. 18. the practice of writing under a false name to lend authority to a text
  10. 20. divine pronouncements in prophetic literature addressing salvation judgment or exhortation
  11. 21. the ancient practice of assigning numerical value to letters in words or names and interpreting them symbolically
  12. 23. a temporary Roman form of banishment which John likely experienced
  13. 24. a genre of revelatory literature that discloses divine realities through visions and symbolic language
  14. 27. the set of books accepted by the Latin-speaking church including Revelation from an early period