Priesthood and Temple in John s Apocalypse

Timothy B. Tse argues that, while John uses language drawn from the Hebrew Bible''s descriptions of YHWH''s dwelling place, scholarship has overlooked the importance of his spatial transformation of that language. Tse thus uses theories relating to Relevance, Resistance Theory, Critical Space Theory, and Conceptual Metaphor, to demonstrate that a significant part of John''s apocalyptic strategy of...