The Lion, the Lamb – Additional Resources

Suggested Reading:

Gonzalez, Revelation, 18-45.

Further Reading:

Paul. J. Achtemeier, “Revelation 5:1-14,” Interpretation 40 (1986) 283–88.

Brian Blount. “Wreaking Weakness: The Way of the Lamb,” chap. 3 of Can I Get a Witness?: Reading Revelation Through African American Culture (Westminster: John Knox Press, 2005) 69–90.

Larry W. Hurtado, “Revelation 4-5 in Light of Jewish Apocalyptic Analogies,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 25 (1985) 105–24.

Christopher Rowland, “The Lamb and the Beast, the Sheep and the Goats: ‘The Mystery of Salvation in Revelation,” in Markus Bockmuehl and Michael B. Thompson, eds., A Vision for the Church: Studies in Early Christian Ecclesiology in Honour of J.P. M. Sweet (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1997) 181–191.

L. Thompson, “Cult and Eschatology in the Apocalypse of John,” Journal of Religion49 (1969) 330–50.

Articles: (click to view)

• How Should We Understand the Lion and the Lamb passage?, at gotquestions.org
• The Scroll, the Lion and the Lamb – Revelation 5, by Reta Halteman Finger
• The Seven Sealed Book and the Lion Who Was Also a Lamb, by J. Hampton Keathley, III

Sermons: (click to view)

• Beyond the Lectionary: Revelation 5:1-10, by Kory Plockmeyer

Art: (click to view)

• Una and the Lion, by Briton Riviere
• Peaceable Kingdom, by Edward Hicks