Book of Revelation Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==== Oriental Orthodox ==== [[File:Mural from Apa Apollo in Bawit - Detail.jpg|thumb|"Christ in Glory (Pankrator)," ca. 6th-8th Century CE, wall painting from the Monastery of Bawit. The Coptic iconography represents many elements from the Book of Revelation.]] In the [[Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria|Coptic Orthodox Church]] the whole Book of Revelation is read during Apocalypse Night after [[Good Friday]].<ref>[http://suscopts.org/resources/literature/222/night-of-the-apocalypse/ "Night of the Apocalypse"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031172800/http://www.suscopts.org/404/ |date=31 October 2022 }}, published by [[Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States]], accessed 23 May 2018</ref> Biblically Ugo Vanni and other biblical scholars have argued that the Book of Revelation was written with the intention to be read entirely in one liturgical setting with dialogue-elements between the reader (singular) and the hearers (plural) based on Rev 1:3 and Rev 1:10.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vanni |first=Ugo |date=1991 |title=Liturgical Dialogue as a Literary Form in the Book of Revelation |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-testament-studies/article/abs/liturgical-dialogue-as-a-literary-form-in-the-book-of-revelation/50544029342CC67BF81545C1F7CE1780 |journal=New Testament Studies |language=en |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=348β372 |doi=10.1017/S0028688500015927 |s2cid=170638316 |issn=1469-8145}}</ref> Beniamin Zakhary has recently shown that the structure of the reading the Book of Revelation within the Coptic rite of Apocalypse Night (this is the only biblical reading in the Coptic church with a dialogue in it, where the reader stops many times and the people respond; additionally the entire book is read in a liturgical setting that culminates with the Eucharist) shows great support for this biblical hypothesis, albeit with some notable difference.<ref name=":0">Beniamin Zakhary. (2022). Support For The Biblical Liturgy of Revelation in the Coptic Tradition. ''Doxology'', 33(4), 6β23. [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19wAuFTlwo2ODA8f4RNH870GZbE_VNO7C/view?pli=1][https://oslpublications.org/periodicalsarchive.html] https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8060812</ref> Additionally, the Book of Revelation permeates many liturgical prayers and iconography within the Coptic Church.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Morkos Fakhry, ''The Book of Revelation and the Church of Alexandria,'' (Coptic Orthodox Church) (Fairfax, VA: Eastern Christian Publications, 2019).</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page