Abstract
AbstractThis article discusses the motif of joy in the Book of Revelation as an intensely hostile and perverse response to the proclamation of the gospel. In the first section the careful and telling use of joy within its context in Revelation 11 as narrative about the ministry of the two witnesses is outlined. Attention is then given to joy as an emotional rejection of the gospel, before the intensity of joy as an emotion is described in terms of motifs of anger, arrogant selfishness and the exchanging of gifts. The nature of these motifs in terms of religious experience is also developed. In a final section the rhetorical impact of the portrayal joy is spelled out in order to illuminate religious experience.
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