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sis at all behind Revelation, hisreadingdoes not lean in thedirection of ideol-ogy criticism. See LeonardL. Thompson, The Bookof Revelation: Apocalypse andEmpire (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990).

84. Duff, WhoRides the Beast? 82.85. See Duff, Who Rides the Beast? 14.

86. Cf. Royalty Jr., Dont Touch This Book!87. See Carey,Elusive Apocalypseand Steve Moyise, The Apocalypse and

Its Ambiguous Ethos, in Studies in the Book of Revelation, in Studies in the Bookof Revelation, ed. Steve Moyise (Edinburgh and New York: T&T Clark,2001), 16380.

88. I use the word spiritualizationhere with some caution:not in thesenseofradical dematerialization, but rather in the sense of pursuing the inner, spiri-tual, or ethical significance of the Hebrew Temple workshop. See the com-ments of Robert J. Daly regarding the limits and usefulness of the wordspiri-tualization. Daly, Christian Sacrifice, 45.

89. The battle depicted between forces of God and forces of Satan [inRev. 12]was reallythe confrontation in historybetween the church,the earthlyinstitution that represented the rule of God, and the Roman empire, theearthly structure used to symbolize the rule of Satan. The so-called cosmic

battle was really imagery that gave . . . cosmic significance [to] the confronta-tion between theRomanempire andJesus andhis church.See Weaver, Vio-lence in Christian Theology, 165.

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