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3 - Apokalypto, Revelation, Imperium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2020

Douglas Yoder
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How does revelation in Daniel 2 relate to apocalyptic revelation, to the term “revelation,” and to the institutionalized forms of revelation claimed by the premodern church-state? Secular modernity reacts against biblical revelation because it was used to justify the misuse of power. Without divine revelation there is no heresy, a capital offense. Modernity views with suspicion institutional entities that systematize power on the grounds of revelation, and it views with alarm the approach of wilder-eyed groups inspired by warfare in the New Testament book of Apocalypse, which is another word for revelation. But the revelation of mystery in Daniel 2 saves Judean exiles and Babylonian sages from physical violence neither could enact, so how does revelation in the Tanakh relate to claimed forms of it in premodern Europe?

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Tanakh Epistemology
Knowledge and Power, Religious and Secular
 , pp. 63 - 99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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