La memoria simbolica del Gesù terreno nel libro dell’Apocalisse

After an introduction outlining the “status quaestionis” and proposing intertextuality (inter-dependence of texts) as a method of research the author divides the article in three parts. First, “The Gospel tradition and the book of Revelation” in which inter-textual relations of the book of Revelation with Synoptic and Johannine traditions are analysed. Then the author passes on to examine the single syntagma, ‘the testimony of Jesus” as an expression of tradition of the historical Jesus. He arrives at the symbolic apocalyptic representations of Jesus, viz., lamb, bridegroom and eshatological prophet and concludes that the truth of the revelation, a present reality with a view to fulfilment in future, is indeed based on the tradition of the historical Jesus.