Tracing Scriptural Authority

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One is familiar with the historical setting in which the religious community attributes authority to teaching and doctrines. What is now being discussed is a sharper process of authorisation in the expressions used and in the way the texts are being written about. This chapter examines this chain of tradition together with its attributions of authority, expressed or implied. It considers the apocalyptic material, seeking to trace a chain of tradition, and thence a continuum of theology and scriptural authority, which runs from the Old Testament sources of the Book of Revelation through the canonical Apocalypse and on into the Johannine apocryphal material. The continuity and evolution of ideas, from the Old Testament to the deutero-canonical apocalypses, gain special significance, and this is not only as stages in a history of thought. Keywords:apocalyptic material; New Testament; Old Testament; Scriptural Authority

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