Reading Revelation After Supersessionism: An Apocalyptic Journey of Socially Identifying John's Multi-Ethnic Ekklēsiai with the Ekklēsia of Israel (New Testament After Supersessionism)

In this volume Ralph Korner argues that Johns extensive social identification with Judaism(s) Jewishness and Jewish institutions does not reflect a literary program of replacing Israel with the ekklēsiai (churches/assemblies) that is the Jewish and non-Jewish followers of Jesus as Israels Messiah. Rather John is emplacing his Christ-followers further within Israel without thereby superseding Israel as a national identity for ethnic Jews who do not follow Jesus as the Christos. There are three primary roads travelled in this investigative journey. First Korner explores ways in which a Jewish heritage is intrinsic to the literary structure genre eschatology symbolism and theological motifs of the Apocalypse. Second he challenges the linear chronology of (generally) supersessionist dispensational readings of Revelations visionary content by arguing for a reiterative/repetitive structure based on certain literary devices that also provide structure for visions within Jewish apocalypses and Hebrew prophecies. Third he incorporates the most recent research on ekklēsia usage especially in Asia Minor to assess how Johns ekklēsia associations might have been (non-supersessionally) perceived especially by Jews in Roman Asia.