CONTENTS

Editor’s Foreword (First Edition)

Editor’s Foreword (Revised Edition)

Author’s Preface (First Edition)

Author’s Preface (Revised Edition)

Abbreviations

Select Bibliography

Introduction

I. Revelation and Apocalyptic Literature

II. Authorship

III. Date
IV. Circulation and Reception in the Early Church

V. Approaches to Interpretation

VI. The Language of Revelation

VII. Structure

VIII. Analysis

Text, Exposition, and Notes

I. Prologue (1:1–20)

II. Letters to the Seven Churches (2:1–3:22)

III. Adoration in the Court of Heaven (4:1–5:14)

IV. The Seven Seals (6:1–8:1)

V. The Seven Trumpets (8:2–11:19)

VI. Conflict Between the Church and the Powers of Evil (12:1–14:5)
VII. The Seven Last Plagues (15:1–16:21)

VIII. The Fall of Babylon (17:1–19:5)

IX. The Final Victory (19:6–20:5)

X. The New Heaven and the New Earth (21:1–22:5)

XI. Epilogue (22:6–21)

Notes

INDEXES

I. Subjects

II. Authors

III. Scripture References

When first published, this volume on Revelation by Robert H. Mounce was widely praised as a standard commentary on the Apocalypse. In this new edition, now based on the text of the NIV and Nestle-Aland, Mounce has revised and expanded his work to reflect more than twenty additional years of mature thought on Revelation and to bring his work up to date with the latest scholarship. As in the original edition, Mounce here engages seriously with the various approaches to interpretation and with the conventions common to apocalyptic literature. In affirming more directly his own reading of the Apocalypse, Mounce steers a middle course between an extreme literalism and a highly imaginative subjectivism, believing this to be the way the ancient text spoke to the first-century churches to whom it was addressed – and the way it still speaks to us today.