Choose one of the apocalypses you have studied and describe how it appropriates some aspects of the genre and excludes others. What is the main point of the apocalypse? What does it warn its readers about? How might it function within a Christian community?

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The Answer is Students should discuss the basic elements of the genre: pseudonymity and its function, symbolic visions and their meaning in the text, repetitions, triumphalist themes, and motivational functions. In addition, they should discuss the primary themes in the texts (the destruction of current world powers, the problem of postbaptismal sin, the promise of heaven and the tortures of hell) and how each of these themes points to problems within particular communities.

Choose One of the Apocalypses You Have Studied and Describe