Contents Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xiii List of Contributors xvii Foreword: " Come Eat of My Bread . and Walk in the Ways of Wisdom " xix Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza Editor's Introduction to Wisdom Commentary: " She Is a Breath of the Power of God " (Wis 7:25) xxiii Barbara E. Reid, OP Prologue xliii Authors' Introduction: Getting Our Bearings: Putting Revelation in Context lxi Revelation 1 Introducing the Apocalypse 1 Revelation 2-3 To the Victor 25 Revelation 4-5 Who Sits upon the Throne? 57 Revelation 6 Revelation Unsealed 81 Revelation 7 Who Can Stand? 97 Revelation 8-9 Sounding the Alarm 117 Revelation 10 A Queer Prophetic Digression 135 Revelation 11 The Power of Witness 145 Revelation 12:1-17 Revelation of the Goddess 163 Revelation 12:18-13:18 Meeting the Beast at the Shore 185 Revelation 14 Following the Lamb 205 Revelation 15-16 Drowning in a Sea of Plague 225 Revelation 17 The Judgment of Babylon the Great Prostitute 241 Revelation 18 The Judgment of the Great City 263 Revelation 19 Here Comes the Bride and Bridegroom 281 Revelation 20 Millennial Hope? 305 Revelation 21-22:5 Unveiling the Bride 323 Revelation 22:6-21 Final Things? 345 Works Cited 351 Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Writings 393 Index of Subjects 405.