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"John the Revelator" is a gospel blues call and response song. [2] Music critic Thomas Ward describes it as "one of the most powerful songs in all of pre-war acoustic music ... [which] has been hugely influential to blues performers". [3] American gospel-blues musician Blind Willie Johnson recorded "John the Revelator
John of Patmos (also called John the Revelator, John the Divine, John the Theologian; Ancient Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Θεολόγος, romanized: Iōannēs ho Theologos) is the name traditionally given to the author of the Book of Revelation.
John the Revelator (John of Patmos) is the traditional author of the Book of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament. John the Revelator may also refer to: "John the Revelator" (folk/blues song), a traditional American folk blues song first recorded by Blind Willie Johnson in 1930 "John the Revelator / Lilian", a 2006 single by Depeche Mode
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza wrote Revelation: Vision of a Just World from the viewpoint of rhetoric. [119] Accordingly, Revelation's meaning is partially determined by the way John goes about saying things, partially by the context in which readers receive the message and partially by its appeal to something beyond logic. [120]
"JTR" began as "John the Revelator," which first appeared live as a tease played twice during a show on November 30, 1998. [2] Afterwards, the song was played in full a total five times – twice in acoustic set by Matthews and Tim Reynolds, and three times with the full band and various guests, such as The Lovely Ladies, Béla Fleck, and the band Santana. [3]
"John the Revelator" / "Lilian" is the second double A-side single released by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, issued on 5 June 2006. Both songs are included on the band's eleventh studio album, Playing the Angel (2005), and served as the fourth single from the album.
St. John of Patmos (also known as John the Revelator, John the Divine, or John the Theologian) was a member of Jesus Christ's inner circle (The Twelve Disciples). [5] The Roman Empire deemed the early Christians as a strange cult and were recognized as troublesome individuals and potential issues for the Empire.
Illustration from the Bamberg Apocalypse of the Son of Man among the seven lampstands The Vision of John on Patmos by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1860). John's vision of the Son of Man, also known as John’s Vision of Christ, is a vision described in the Book of Revelation (Revelation 1:9–20) in which the author, identified as John, sees a person he describes as one "like the Son of Man" ().