Seven Signs in Heaven – Additional Resources

Suggested Reading:

Gonzalez, Revelation, 76-97.

Further Reading:

J. J. Botha, “God, Emperor, Worship, and Society: Contemporary Experiences and the Book of Revelation,” Neotestamentica22 (1988) 87–102.

Adela Yarbro Collins, “The Political Perspective of the Revelation to John,” Chapter 6 of Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1998) 198–217.

Steven Friesen, “Myth and Symbolic Resistance in Revelation 13,” Journal of Biblical Literature123 (2004) 281–313.

Paul S. Minear, “Far as the Curse is Found: The Point of Rev 12.15-16,” Novum Testamentum 33 (1991) 71–77.

J. Scherer, “Signs and Wonders in the Imperial Cult: A New Look at the Roman Religious Institution in the Light of Rev. 13.13-15,” Journal of Biblical Literature103 (1984) 599–610.

Articles: (click to view)

• Woman of the Apocalypse, at wikipedia
• Who Are the Woman, Child and Dragon in Revelation 12?, by David Treybig
• Revelation 12:1-17 – Part 2: Female Imagery in Revelation, by Reta Halteman Finger
• What is the Mark of the Beast (Revelation 13)?, by Thomas R. Schreiner
• The Land-Beast of Revelation 13, by Phillip J. Kayser
• What is Michael Doing with His Angels in Revelation 12?, by Ian Paul

Sermons: (click to view)

• Revelation 12: The Woman, the Child and the Dragon, by Bruce Ball
• War in Heaven, by W.A. Criswell

Art: (click to view)

• The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, by William Blake
• The Beast with the Seven Heads and the Beast with the Lamb’s Horn, by Albrecht Durer