RT Article
T1 Crafting the Eschaton: The Second Death and the Lake of Fire in Revelation
JF Journal for the study of the New Testament
VO 41
IS 4
SP 501
OP 518
A1 Woodington, J. David
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1666231347
AB The idea of a 'second death' (Rev. 2.11; 20.6, 14; 21.8) is found nowhere else in the NT except for Revelation. One of the more striking characteristics of the second death in the Apocalypse is its equivalency with 'the lake of fire' (Rev. 19.20; 20.10, 14-15), a phrase unique to John himself save for a few temporally distant Egyptian sources. By exploring why John might have been motivated to identify these two concepts directly with each other, one can better appreciate the creative rhetorical work he has performed in order to inform his readers about the nature of the eschaton.
K1 Christian apocalypticism
K1 Hades
K1 Revelation
K1 Eschatology
K1 lake of fire
K1 Second Death
DO 10.1177/0142064X19832204