This book breaks fresh ground in the interpretation of the Apocalypse with an interdisciplinary methodology called aural-performance criticism that assesses how the first-century audience would have heard the Apocalypse.

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Kayle B. de Waal is Head of the Avondale Seminary and Senior Lecturer in New Testament at Avondale College of Higher Education in Cooranbong, Australia. He received his MA in theology from the University of Kwazulu-Natal and his PhD in theology from the University of Auckland. He is the author of A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of the Seven Trumpets of Revelation as well as a number of book chapters and peer-reviewed articles.

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Contents: Literature Review and Methodology The Authorial Audience and the Culture in John s World Aurality in the Ancient Literature An Aural-Performance Analysis of Revelation 1:1 - 21 An Aural-Performance Analysis of Rev. 11:1 - 19 Summary and Implications of this Study.