Please pick of the two and use direction to complete using the book of revelations
1.) Select a passage from the Book of Revelation (a link is in the Required Readings section for this week) and copy it below. Then do a detail-oriented close read of your selected passage. (Here (Links to an external site.) is a strong resource for learning how to do a close read.)
Focus especially on the concepts that I introduced in the lecture (e.g. mystery, spectacle, drama, new beginnings, the hybridity of monsters, the rage of desecration.) Does Timothy Beale’s quote, “It is a revelation of something that defies its own revelation” apply to your selected passage?
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2.) Talk about the notion of apocalypse and its role in contemporary culture. Is still as prominent in the popular imagination as it has been historically?
How do the apocalyptic scenarios and prophecies of today relate to those that I outlined in my lecture? Refer to specific examples.
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Apocalypse
The notion of apocalypse is one that is very common not only historically but also in contemporary culture. Apocalypses are used to refer to events that could take place that could bring an end to the world as we know it. In the past decade, the notion of apocalypse has become a dominant theme in the film and theater industry with many producers developing films that predict various forms of apocalypse that could change the world in ways that have never been perceived before. Examples of these films include Snowpiercer,
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