{"id":109,"date":"2007-01-19T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/2007\/01\/19\/apocalyptic-language\/"},"modified":"2007-01-19T03:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T03:04:00","slug":"apocalyptic-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2007\/01\/apocalyptic-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalyptic Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We do this [use apocalyptic language] all the time ourselves. I have often pointed out to students that to describe the fall of the Berlin Wall, as one well might, as an &#8216;earth-shattering event&#8217; might perhaps lead some future historian, writing in the <i>Martian Journal of Early European Studies<\/i>, to hypothesize that an earthquake had caused the collapse of the Wall, leading to both sides realizing they could live together after all. A good many readings of apocalyptic literature in our own century operate on about that level of misunderstanding.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>-N.T. Wright, <span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">The New Testament and the People of God,<\/span> 282.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do this [use apocalyptic language] all the time ourselves. I have often pointed out to students that to describe the fall of the Berlin Wall, as one well might, as an &#8216;earth-shattering event&#8217; might perhaps lead some future historian, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2007\/01\/apocalyptic-language\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,28,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-imagery","category-eschatology","category-nt-wright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}