This essay wants to examine Leland Ryken's work in the context of recent literary approaches to hermeneutics. The author surveys Ryken's methodology together with two other literary critics, Amos Wilder and Northrop Frye. They approach the biblical text with similar assumptions about its literary nature.

It is a striking characteristic of the book of Revelation that it makes use of Old Testament imagery in its proclamation of Jesus Christ. This article explores how these Old Testament images are altered in Revelation.